Book Presentation: The Politics of Migrant Labour

Within the ERC project Illicit Labor and the global photovoltaic industry, Gabriella Alberti (University of Leeds) and Devi Sacchetto (University of Padua) will present their latest book The Politics of Migrant Labor: Exit, Voice, and Social Reproduction (Bristol University Press).

The meeting will be moderated by Riccardo Martinelli (CNR-IRPPS) and speakers will include: Lucia Amorosi (Scuola Normale Superiore), Andrea Ciarini (Sapienza University of Rome) and Antonio Sanguinetti (CNR-IRPPS). 

This book explores the link between labor mobility and international migration from a historical and global perspective. By analyzing migrants' individual and collective actions, both inside and outside trade unions, Alberti and Sacchetto offer a new interpretation of migrant workers' everyday mobility, considering it as a creative and vital strategy for social reproduction and labor struggle.