Tra sostenibilità sociale e benessere soggettivo. Lo spazio del lavoro dignitoso

Sustainability and Well-being. The Key of Decent Work as Cornerstone of Human Development. Sustainability is the mainstream issue of this century, while sustainable human development leans mainly on quality of life and subjective well-being for the entire mankind. This study introduces in synthesis the concept of sustainability It proceeds describing fundamental tools and methodologies, adopted in international contexts, to measure subjective well-being. The underlying idea is that subjective well-being is strictly connected to social relations and to social identity in particular. One of the domains in which the concept of identity and the goal of social sustainability are strongly related is decent work. Decent work is a multidimensional concept. This study describes some different sets of indicators and some data concerning work conditions in the world. Two operative chapters are devoted to subjective well-being indicators in official statistical surveys. The first describes the methodological approaches. The second presents the statistical analyses and some results. In particular there is an application of a synthesis methodology to ordinal variables based on discrete mathematics. The analyses explore available contents in the official statistics and investigate the presence of hidden information not yet exploited. The last chapter reaffirms the concept of identity and its link with the meaning of work and subjective and social well-being. It briefly introduces an experience of training and motivational intervention in a social cooperative.