Work conflict and collective organization in the face of technological change: new and old challenges

10 July 2024 16.00pm – 18.00pm

Europa Room

The study day with Prof. Maurizio Atzeni, is organized within the activities of the ERC Project Illicit work and the photovoltaic industry.

Participation is in person and the number of places is limited. Please confirm your participation by sending an email to riccardo.martinelli@irpps.cnr.it

To participate in the meeting, we recommend reading the following texts:

Atzeni, M. (2023). The labor process and workers' rights at Mercado Libre: hiding exploitation through regulation in the digital economy. Work in the Global Economy, 3(2), 181-200. Retrieved Jul 2, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1332/27324176Y2023D000000003

Atzeni, M., & Cini, L. (2023). New theories and politics for working class organizing in the gig and precarious world of work. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X231201009

Short Bio
Maurizio Atzeni divides his time between Argentina and Chile, working as a researcher at CEIL/CONICET and as a Professor of Industrial Relations at the Alberto Hurtado University. The search for him takes place around two main axes. The first is the study of the nature and dynamics of workplace conflict and forms of collective organization of workers. He covers a wide spectrum of cases (auto industry, delivery industry in pre- and post-digitalization contexts, self-managed and cooperative factories, informal labor market) to map conflicts and forms of work organization. A second axis of research studies the forms of work that are produced on the basis of contemporary developments in capitalism. This axis refers to a global and interdisciplinary dimension that has been carried forward in particular in the publications of the Handbook of the Global Political Economy of Work and previously in Workers and Labor in a Globalized Capitalism. In 2022 he founded the international summer school, LabourTransfer, in Sardinia, which combines the academic world of labor studies with trade union activism and territorial development.