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‘Misbehaving for Deliveroo. How couriers’ digital manipulation boosts the platform’s business’ Open
Workplace misbehaviour has always been troublesome for employers. Workers have often exhibited conducts, such as absenteeism, pilferage, soldiering, sabotage and vandalism, that are foreign to companies’ norms and detrimental to their prof…
New theories and politics for working class organizing in the gig and precarious world of work Open
The emergence of labour conflicts across different sectors of the gig and precarious economy is challenging established industrial relations (IR) frameworks and some of its political implications. Despite its analytical merits, Kelly’s uni…
How algorithms are reshaping the exploitation of labour-power: insights into the process of labour invisibilization in the platform economy Open
Marx conceives of capitalism as a production mode based on the exploitation of labour-power, whose productive consumption in the labour process is considered as the main source of value creation. Capitalists seek to obscure and secure work…
Resisting algorithmic control: Understanding the rise and variety of platform worker mobilisations Open
Algorithms are seen as effective for managing workers. Literature focuses mainly on the functioning and impact of algorithmic control on workers' experiences and conditions. The ways in which platform workers have organised collectively to…
Mobilizing against the odds. Solidarity in action in the platform economy Open
The relationship between working conditions and the development of collective solidarity has been much debated in sociology over the past century. The article contributes to this debate by exploring two recent cases of worker mobilization …
With or without U(nions)? Understanding the diversity of gig workers’ organizing practices in Italy and the UK Open
Since 2016, mobilizations of gig workers across European countries have become increasingly common within location-based services, such as food delivery. Despite remarkable similarities in workers’ mobilization dynamics, their organization…
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Mobilizing precarious workers in Italy: two pathways of collective action intentions Open
Following increased flexibilization of labour market and related decline of traditional labour unionism over the last few decades, studying mobilization processes of precarious workers has become particularly timely. While localized forms …
An inquiry into urban peripheries, socio-economic distress and vote. The cases of Bologna, Florence and Rome Open
The weakening of traditional parties and of their territorial rooting which has occurred over the last decades has brought back the scholarly interest on the local dynamics, namely, on the social and political transformations involving loc…
The 2015 Student Mobilizations in South Africa. Contesting Post-Apartheid Higher Education Open
In October 2015, a student protest at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), a historically white university (HWU), arising in opposition to the decision taken by the University Council to increase tuition fees, spurred a massive wave…
Participatory deliberative democracy: toward a new standard for assessing democracy? some insights into the Italian case Open
Defining what democracy means nowadays seems increasingly problematic as several alternative democratic visions are being developed and contrasted in normative theory and political practice. On the one hand, there are traditional accounts …
Bosi Lorenzo, Marco Giugni, and Katrin Uba (2016), The Consequences of Social Movements, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Open
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Italian Students as a Political Actor. The Policy Impact of the Recent Student Mobilizations in the Field of Higher Education Open
After decades of political passivity, Italian students have massively mobilized in the years 2008 and 2010 to protest the implementation of two political measures fostering a neoliberal conception of higher education. More notably, the cas…