DEVI SACCHETTO

SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL CURRICULUM VITAE

       PERSONAL DETAILS

Surname:                        SACCHETTO
First name:                           DEVI
Address:       Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, Applied Psychology
(FISPPA)
Via M. Cesarotti, 12 - 35122 Padua
                               Tel. 049-8274306
E-mail                          devi.sacchetto@unipd.it

Academic positions   Full Professor in Competition Sector 14/GSPS-08
(formerly 14/D1) at the FISPPA Department, University of Padua. Took up duties
on 01.04.2022.
Associate Professor in Competition Sector 14/D1 at the FISPPA Department,
University of Padua from 02.03.2015 to 31.03.2022.
Researcher in S.S.D. SPS/09, Sociology of economic, labour
and organisational processes; at the FISPPA Department, University of Padua. From
01.10.2007 to 01.03.2015.

       EDUCATION

2003    PhD in “Research methodologies in the human sciences”, Department of Anthropological Sciences (DISA), University of Genova.
Thesis title: “Complex exchange. Migrants and capital to the east of the
Northeast”.
2001    Training course “Oral sources as sources for the history of the 20th
century: collection, description, preservation and use”, organised
by Anai, Roma, 12-15 November.
1999    Intensive seminar on “Qualitative methodologies of social research”
organised by the School of Social Research Methodology,
University of Milano.
1996    Advanced course in “International cooperation and development”, University of Padua.
1995    Advanced course in “Economic journalism”, University of Verona.
1993    Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, University of Padua. The thesis in
Sociology of labour and industry focused on: “Diffusion
and concentration of the textile and clothing sector in Veneto in the last
decade”.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
•       English:         good written and spoken.
•       Spanish:        school-level written and good spoken.
•       French:        school-level written and spoken.

       PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching and related activities

2015-2026       Lecturer in Sociology of Labour (Bachelor's Degree programme) and in
Sociology of Labour Processes and Migration (Master's degree programme),
University of Padua.
2008-10, 2011-2015      Lecturer in Sociology of Labour, Bachelor's Degree programme in Sociological
Sciences, University of Padua.
2013-2015       Contract lecturer in Sociology of Labour, Bachelor's Degree programme in
Labour Consultancy, University of Padua.
2018-2022       Lecturer in “Global Labour Studies”, advanced course,
University Milano Bicocca.
2017-2024       Lecturer on the Advanced Course: Critical Theory of Society,
University of Milano Bicocca.
2015-2022       Lecturer in Migration and Labour, second-level university Postgraduate programmes,
Critical Criminology and Social Security, University of Padua
2012-   Lecturer on the PhD in Social Sciences, University of Padua.
2010-2020       Lecturer in “Migration, labour and welfare”, second-level university
Postgraduate programmes, Migration Law, University of Bergamo.
2011-12 Contract lecturer in Sociology of Organisation, University
of Bergamo.
2007-12 Adjunct Professor of Economic Sociology, Faculty of Political
Science, University of Padua.
2006-07 Contract lecturer in Economic Sociology, Faculty of Political
Science, University of Padua.
2005-06 Contract lecturer in Migration Processes and Labour (specialist
degree), Faculty of Political Science, University of Padua.
2004-05 Contract lecturer in Sociology of Labour, Faculty of Political
Science, University of Padua.
2003-04 Contract lecturer in Sociology of Labour, Faculty of
Law, University of Padua.
2000-05 Teaching appointments on ESF (European Social Fund) courses on behalf
of Cuoa (Altavilla Vicentina-Vicenza) and Agfol of Venezia.
2000-03 Tutor in Sociology of Labour, Faculty of Law,
University of Padua.
2000-01                 Teacher in upper secondary schools.
1998-08 Subject expert in Sociology of Labour and Migration Processes and Labour,
University of Padua.
1996-04 Teaching and tutoring appointment for O.A.A.-O.T.A.A.,
O.S.S. courses in Adria (Ro) Padua and Treviso, organised by Ial-Veneto.

Research activities

2024-2026       Scientific coordinator of the Release Plus project (Rete Legale Anti
Sfruttamento), Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (FAMI) (€ 31872).
2023-2026       National coordinator of the PRIN project: “Labour in transition:
job-skills development and firm innovation competencies” (PRIN 2022) (€
233,762)
2023    Scientific coordinator of the Release project (Rete Legale Anti
Sfruttamento), Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (FAMI) (€ 50,554).
2023    Scientific coordinator of the project “The impact of Civil Service
in the Veneto area”, CSV of Padua and Rovigo (€ 10,000)
2020-2021       Scientific coordinator of the project "DigiLife - Tools and
practices for workplace wellbeing, work-life balance and social
dialogue in digital transformation" (FSE 2105-0045-1463-2019) (€
145,351.84).
2020-2024       Scientific coordinator for the Italian research group of the
project "Shipping Off Labour: Changing Staffing Strategies in Globalized
Workplaces", The Research Council of Norway (€36,744.00).
2018-2020       Scientific coordinator of the research project "The construction of
practices of sociability in labour processes", Fondazione Alsos, Bologna
(€ 45,000.00).
2016-18         Scientific coordinator of the research project "From China to
Europe. Migration and gender in the Global Production Network", University
Project, University of Padua (€ 26,390.00).
2017-18 Scientific coordinator of the project for the Italian research
group “EaSI-Progress: Posting of workers: enhancing administrative
cooperation and access to information”, European Commission. (€
29,063.12)
2015-16 Scientific coordinator for the Italian research group of the
project: “Testing EU citizenship as ‘labour citizenship’: from cases
of labour rights violations to a strengthened labour-rights regime”, Europe
for citizens, European Commission. (€ 17,166.97)
2015    Scientific coordinator of the research project: “Chinese migration
in Veneto”, commissioned by Veneto Lavoro, Agency of the Veneto Region
for labour. (€ 26,618.92)
2014-15 Participation in the research project “Prisoners’ labour”,
University Project, University of Padua (scientific coordinator Maria
Giovanna Mattarolo).
2014-16 Scientific coordinator of the project “Longitudinal analysis of
migrant workers in the economic crisis: unemployment, precarity and
returns”, Junior Research Grants, University of Padua. (€
22,076.00).
2013-14 Scientific coordinator of the research project: “Women and men
workers in Italian clothing and footwear after globalisation”, Clean Clothes Campaign, European project:
EuropAid/131141/C/ACT/Multi. (€ 6,000.00).
2012-14 Participation in the research project "Political spaces and times in
global society. Postcolonial studies and the delocalisation of Europe",
University Project, University of Padua (scientific coordinator
Massimiliano Tomba).
2010-11 Scientific coordinator of the research project: “Economic crisis
and migration”, commissioned by Veneto Lavoro, Agency of the Veneto Region
for labour.
2010-12         Scientific coordinator of the research project "International
migration and labour turnover", University Project, University of
Padua. (€ 31,500.00).
2008-9  Scientific coordinator of the research project “Economic changes
and social repercussions of migration and delocalisation in some countries
of Central-Eastern Europe” commissioned by Veneto Lavoro,
Agency of the Veneto Region for labour.
2006            Research assignment “Investment flows and the fate of the labour
force. The case of textiles and clothing” commissioned by the Province of
Venezia, Department of Sociology, University of Padua.
2005-07         Research fellow within the project “Migration and
labour in agriculture in the Triveneto area”, Department of Sociology,
University of Padua.
2005            Research assignment “The port of Venezia: the gateway to the East”
commissioned by Associazione Stella Maris Onlus, Department of
Sociology, University of Padua.
2004-06         Research activity in the three-year European project “Policy
Responses Overcoming Factors in the Intergenerational Transmission of
Inequalities (Profit)”, Department of Historical and Political Studies, University
of Padua.
2004-06 Participation in the research group, project “Labour, migration and
direct investment between Italy and South-Eastern Europe” (PRIN-MIUR),
Department of Sociology, University of Padua.
2003-05 Participation in the research group, project “Migration and new
forms of domestic labour in Italy” (PRIN-MIUR), Department of
Sociology, University of Padua.
2003-05         Research fellow within the project “Migration
movements between political rules and direct investment in Eastern
Europe”, Department of Sociology, University of Padua.
2002-5          Research activity within the three-year European project
“European Liberty and Security: Security Issues, Social Cohesion and
Institutional Development of the European Union” (Elise-Serd-2002-00124,
DGXII-European Community), Department of Anthropological Sciences, University
of Genova.
2003            Research fellow within the project “Maritime and shipbuilding
workers in Venezia” (PRIN-MURST), Department of
Sociology, University of Padua.
2001-2          Research fellow within the project “Migrant labour and
new wars” (PRIN-MURST), Department of Sociology, University of
Padua.
2001-2          Research assignment “Maritime workers. Social profiles and
new service demands” commissioned by the Municipality of Venezia, the
Province of Venezia and the Port Authority of Venezia.
2000-01         Research activity within the three-year European project
“Gender and local management of change in seven countries of the European
Union”, Department of Historical and Political Studies, University of Padua.
2000-03 Research activity within the three-year European project
“Improving Policy Responses and Outcomes to Socio-Economic Challenges:
Changing Family Structures and Practice”  (IPROSEC), Department of Historical
and Political Studies, University of Padua.
1998            Research assignment “Fincantieri: global factory and territory.
Social composition and new demand for services” commissioned by the Municipality
of Venezia.
1997-98         Research activity on behalf of the Hungarian Ministry of
Culture, at Eötvos Lorand University of Budapest. Research title: “The
Hungarian textile and clothing sectors in the post-1989 period and Italian
investment in Hungary”.
1997            Research assignment on behalf of Aaster of Milano commissioned
by Confartigianato and the Ministry of Industry. The project
developed concerned the “Benetton System” and the Veneto footwear
production system.

Other professional activities
Coordinator of the Sociology Section, Department of Philosophy,
Sociology, Education, Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padua
(2023-)
Member of the national qualification committee (ASN) for the
scientific-disciplinary sector 14/D1 (2024-2026)
Member of the Steering group for the International Labour Process Conference
(2022-)
Director of the Advanced Training Course “The labour market in organised
modern distribution”, University of Padua (2023-2024).
Deputy Director of the Advanced Training Course “Agri-food Supply Chains: Enterprises and
Labour” (2022-2023).
Coordinator of scientific area no. 16 in Political and Social Sciences,
University of Padua (2023-)
Member of the selection committee for research grants, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Spain (2022).
Member of the Department Board of the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education,
Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padua (2022-2023)
Member of the Advisory Board of the research project “Battery manufacturing in East
Asia and Europe”, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, (P.I. Stefanie Hürtgen, Boy
Lüthje), Institute for Social Research (IfS), Frankfurt (2025-2027).
Member of the Advisory Board of the research project "Labour mobility in transition: a
multi-actor study of the re-regulation of migrant work in 'low-skilled'
sectors” (£ 986,203), ESRC Standard Grant (P.I. Gabriella Alberti
University of Leeds Business School) (2021-2024)
Scientific coordinator of the E. Anchieri Library Committee,
University of Padua (2022-2024)
Member of the Governing Board of the PhD in Social Sciences,
University of Padua (2022-)
Deputy Coordinator of the PhD in Social Sciences:
interactions, communication, cultural constructions, University of Padua
(2022-2023).
Coordinator of the PhD in Social Sciences:
interactions, communication, cultural constructions, University of Padua
(2015-2022).
Member of the Board of the PhD School in Social Sciences:
interactions, communication, cultural constructions, University of Padua
(2012-).
Member of the Committee for the competition for fixed-term researcher (art. 24 paragraph
3 letter b) – Competition sector 14/D1, profile SPS/09 – (Sociology
of economic and labour processes), University of Napoli Federico II,
2024.
Member of the Committee for the selection procedure for Full Professor for the
Competition sector 14/D1, profile SPS/09 – (Sociology of economic processes
and labour), University of Genova, 2023.
Member of the Committee for the evaluation procedure for Associate Professor for
the Competition sector 14/D1, profile SPS/09 – (Sociology of economic processes
and labour), University of Padua, 2022.
Member of the Committee for the selection procedure for Full Professor for the
Competition sector 14/D1, profile SPS/10 – (Sociology of the environment and
territory), Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2022.
Member of the Committee for the selection procedure for Full Professor for the
Competition sector 14/D1, profile SPS/09 – (Sociology of economic processes
and labour), University of Napoli Federico II, 2022.
Member of the Committee for the competition for fixed-term researcher (art. 24 paragraph
3 letter a) – Competition sector 14/D1, profile SPS/09 – (Sociology
of economic processes and labour), University of Padua, 2022.
Member of the Committee for the competition for fixed-term researcher (art. 24 paragraph
3 letter a) – Competition sector 14/D1, profile SPS/09 – (Sociology
of economic processes and labour), University of Modena e Reggio Emilia,
2022.
Member of the Committee for the competition for fixed-term researcher (art. 24 paragraph
3 letter a) – Competition sector 14/D1, profile SPS/09 – (Sociology
of economic processes and labour), University of Padua, 2021.
Member of the Committee for the competition for fixed-term researcher (art. 24 paragraph
3 letter a) – Competition sector 14/D1, profile SPS/09 – (Sociology
of economic processes and labour), University of Venezia, 2017.
Member of the Committee for the competition for fixed-term researcher (art. 24 paragraph
3 letter a) – Competition sector 14/D1, profile SPS/10 – (Sociology
of the environment and territory), University of Venezia, 2017.
Chair of the Committee for the competition for fixed-term researcher (art. 24
paragraph 3 letter a) – Competition sector 14/D1, profile SPS/09 (Sociology
of economic processes and labour), University of Padua, 2016.
Member of the examining committee for the award of the PhD title
(University of Salerno, University of Roma, University Milano
Bicocca, University Milano Statale, Universidad Estadual Paulista) 2017-2023
Member of the PhD student selection committee (University of Padua, 2013, 2016).
Registered in the Register of evaluation experts (Cev) for
the periodic accreditation of degree courses established at Anvur
(2015-)
Referee for the following journals: Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa, Sociologia
del lavoro, Rassegna italiana di Sociologia, Quaderni di Teoria Sociale,
Sociologia urbana e rurale, Meridiana, Stato e mercato, Politiche sociali,
Autonomie locali e servizi sociali, Workers of the World, International
Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict, Ethnic and Racial Studies,
WorkingUsa, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, Organisation,
Journal of International Migration and Integration, European Management
Review, Transfer, Work in the Global Economy, Work, Employment and Society,
Journal of Agriculture and Human Values, Journal of Industrial Relations,
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Notebooks, Journal of Classical
Sociology, KUL Social Issue, Trasnantional Mobilities (2007-).
Evaluation of research projects of Italian universities: University of Teramo,
University of Verona (2011-).
Representative of the scientific area “Political and social sciences” (no.
16) on the Technical-Scientific Committee of the University Centre for Libraries of the
University of Padua (2009-13).
Representative of the sociological area on the Technical-Scientific Committee
of the E. Anchieri Library, Faculty of Political Science, University of
Padua (2007-).
Member of the scientific committee of “Applied sociology” (area
no. 16 sub-area 16.3) for the four-year period 2008-2012, and the four-year
period 2016-2020, University of Padua.
Deputy Director of the interdepartmental research centre “Gender policy
studies” active at the University of Padua (2008-14).
Member of the scientific committee for the course “Women, politics and
institutions”, University of Padua (2008-11).
Chair of the “Ethics Committee for Clinical Practice” of Azienda
Ulss no. 19 of Adria (Rovigo) (2007-10).
Appointment to participate in the development of a transnational telematic
programme for the development of cooperation among European enterprises at
the Staffordshire European Business Centre (Great Britain) within the
Comett Community programme (1995).

Membership
Member of the Editorial Board of the South-South Migration Book Series,
Springer (2021-).
Member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Sociologia del lavoro (2019-)
Member of the Editorial Committee of the series “Sociologia”, Meltemi
(2018-)
Member of the Editorial Committee of the series “Etnografie”, Ombre Corte
(2016-)
Member of the Scientific Direction of the series “Labirinti”, Derive &
Approdi Editore (2012-)
Member of the Scientific Committee of the series “Intersezioni e
asincronie”, Guerini e Associati (2014-)
Member of the Associazione Italiana di Storia del lavoro (2012-)
Member of the Associazione italiana di Sociologia – Section of Economy,
labour, organisation (ELO) (2007-2016)

Member of the Società italiana di sociologia economica (2015-2023)

Editor of the journal Altreragioni (1994-01)

Supervisor of the following PhD students and Marie Curie fellows
Giulia Peruzzi (Supervisor), “Informalisation in the restaurant
industry: the case of Venezia and Amsterdam” (2023-2026)
Luca Villaggi (Supervisor), provisional thesis title: “Metamorphosis of
welfare and crisis of social reproduction” (2021-2024).
Olena Fedyuk (Supervisor) “Towards Transnational Labour Rights? Temporary
Work Agencies and Third Country National Workers in the EU” (Marie Curie
Fellows) (2020-2023).
Al Amin Rabby, provisional thesis title “Bangladeshi Migrant laborer
in shipbuilding Industries in Italy: Ethnic enclaves, working conditions, and
Social capital” (2020-2023).
Costanza Galanti (Co-Supervisor with Roland Erne), “The struggle for care
under the new European Economic governance. Collective action in and between
Italy and Romania” (2019-2023) (PhD Student), University College Dublin.
Andrea Caroselli (tutor), thesis title “Imagining the turning point.
An ethnography of conflictual practices in technical and vocational
education in Roma” (2017-2021).
Anne-Iris Romens (tutor), thesis title: “Coping with essentialism and
stratifications: Migrant women with tertiary education in local labour
markets of France and Italy” (2016-2019)
Gao Ru (tutor), thesis title: “Women's empowerment in translocal
mobility and the globalised assembly line of low-end labour force
(re)production: Chinese female migration in Italy” (2016-2019)
Mohammad Morad (tutor), thesis title: "Multiple Migrations: Social
Networks and Transnational Lives of Italian Bangladeshis in Europe"
(2016-2019).
Carlottà Benvegnù (tutor), thesis title: “In the workshops of
circulation. An ethnography of logistics labour between Gran Paris and the
diffused Veneto metropolis” (2014-2018).
Francesco Iannuzzi (tutor), thesis title: “Inside Venice.
Productive fragmentation and labour differentiation in the hospitality
industry” (2014-2017).
Martín Cecchi (tutor), thesis title: "Globalised production and
organisation of labour in the global electronics industry. The case of
Foxconn in Messico" (2013-2015).
Marco Semenzin (tutor), thesis title: “Cooperative practices. A
study on recovered enterprises in Argentina and Italy.” (2012-2015)
Vanessa Azzeruoli (co-tutor with Pier Paolo Giglioli), thesis title:
“Links between plains. The construction of transnational networks between the Indian Punjab
and Italy” (2011-2014).

Visiting Scholar
2019    Middlesex University (15-18 May), Business School, London.
2018    Leeds University (12-15 February), Business School.
2016    Comenius University of Bratislava (9-16 March), Political Science
Department.
2015    Bristol University (23 February-7 June), Economics Finance and
Management Department
2014    Middlesex University, Business School, London (6-10 April)
2013    Universidad Complutense, Madrid (29 October-2 November)
2013    Sabanci University, Istanbul Policy Center, Istanbul (6-15 September)
2012    Charles University of Prague, Faculty of Humanities, Department of
General Anthropology (30 August-11 September)
2011    University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
(16-19 June).
2011    Guangzhou University – Guangzhou (Cina) – (3-22 May)
2010            Moscow State University, M. V. Lomonosov – Mosca (Russia) (16
September-1 October)

Erasmus
2016-   Erasmus coordinator with the University of Turku, Turku
(Finland).   
2011-   Erasmus coordinator with the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de
Paris (SciencesPO), Parigi (Francia).   
2011-           Erasmus coordinator with the University of Lodzki (Polonia).       
2011-   Erasmus coordinator with the University of Versailles
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Francia).
2011-   Erasmus coordinator with the University of Bretagne
Occidentale (Francia).
2013-   Erasmus coordinator with Middlesex University, London
(Regno Unito).
2015-           Erasmus coordinator with Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
(Romania)
2016-           Erasmus coordinator with the University of Leeds (Regno
Unito).
2016-           Erasmus coordinator with the University of Huelva (Spagna).

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

2024    The Politics of Migrant Labour. Exit, Voice and Social Reproduction (with
G. Alberti), Bristol University Press, Bristol, pp. 273 (translated into
Italian: Lavoro migrante. Exit, voice e riproduzione sociale, Meltemi, 2025)
2024    European shipbuilding in a globalised market. Outsourcing and
fragmentation in the Italian shipbuilding industry (with F. E. Iannuzzi, G.
Meardi, N. Quandamatteo), Etui, Brussels.
2017    I cieli e i gironi del lusso. Processi lavorativi e di valorizzazione
nelle reti della moda (with D. Bubbico, V. Redini), Guerini, Milano, pp. 207.
2009    Fabbriche galleggianti. Solitudine e sfruttamento dei nuovi marinai,
Jaca Book, Milano, pp. 292
2004    Il Nordest e il suo Oriente. Migranti, capitali e azioni umanitarie,
Ombre Corte, Verona, pp. 308.

Edited volumes

2023    “Labour conflict, forms of organization and class”, Partecipazione e
Conflitto (Special Issue) vol. 16(2); Global Labour Journal 14(3); Economic
and Labour Relations Review; Revista Latino Americana de Estudios del Trabajo
(with M. Atzeni, J. Chan), no. 44/2024.
2021    Remote work. Legal and sociological aspects, Giappichelli,
Torino (with M. Peruzzi)
2018    Cinèṣi tra le maglie del lavoro, Angeli, Milano (with M. Rasera).
2017    “Space and time in productive and reproductive processes”, Sociologia
del lavoro (Special Issue), vol. 146 (with G. Alberti, F. A. Vianello).
2017    Le reti del valore. Migrazioni, produzione e governo della crisi, Derive
& Approdi, Roma (with S. Chignola)
2016    I processi migratori interni all'Unione Europea, Mondi migranti (Special
issue), no. 3 (with R. Andrijasevic, F. A. Vianello).
2016    Flexible workforces and low profit margins: electronics assembly between
Europe and China, Etui, Brussels (with R. Andrijasevic, J. Drahokoupil).
2015    Morire per un iPhone (by Pun Ngai, Jenny Chan, Mark Selden), Jaca Book,
Milano (with F. Gambino)
2015    Nella fabbrica globale. Vite al lavoro e resistenze operaie nei
laboratori della Foxconn (by Pun Ngai et al), Ombre corte, Verona (with F.
Gambino)
2013    Navigando a vista. Migranti nella crisi economica tra lavoro e
disoccupazione, Franco Angeli, Milano (with F. A. Vianello)
2012    Pun Ngai, Cina, la società armoniosa. Sfruttamento e resistenza degli
operai migranti, Jaca Book, Milano (with F. Gambino)
2011    Ai margini dell’Unione europea. Spostamenti e insediamenti a Oriente,
Carocci, Roma
2009    Quando il potere è operaio. Autonomia e soggettività politica a Porto
Marghera (1960-1980), Manifestolibri, Roma (with G. Sbrogiò). Translated into
French with the title: Pouvoir ouvrier à Porto Marghera. Du Comité
d’usine à l’Assemblée régionale (Vénétie – 1960-1980), Les nuit
rouges, Paris, 2012.
2008    La lunga accumulazione originaria. Politica e lavoro nel mercato
mondiale, Ombre Corte, Verona (with M. Tomba)
2007    Un arcipelago produttivo. Migranti e imprenditori tra Italia e Romania,
Carocci, Roma (with F. Gambino)
1999    Frammenti di lavoro, Quaderno no. 2 dell’Osservatorio Veneto, Verona,
Cierre Edizioni.

Journal articles

2026    “Living at work: accommodation, labour and social reproduction (with C.
Smith, C. Goodburn, Pun Ngai), Work in the Global Economy,
DOI:10.1332/27324176Y2026D000000069
2026    “Accommodation for valorization: living at work and the labour
process” (with C. Smith), Work in the Global Economy, DOI:
10.1332/27324176Y2026D000000070
2026    “The labour fix: workers and unions within the Green automotive
transition” (with G. Julio Medel), Transfer, 1-17,
https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589251410036
2025    “Regulatory Ethics Versus Ethics of Truth: Exploring Procedures and
Methodological Outcomes of Accountability” (with C. Morrison), Asian
Development Perspectives,16(2):153-169.
2025    “Bangladeshi workers on the edge of the labour regime in Italian
Fincantieri shipyards” (with A.A. Rabby), Journal of Industrial Relations,
Vol. 67(1) 80–100.
2025    Navigating cross-border labour mobility and employment security in
European shipbuilding: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis (with Wagner, I.,
Jaehrling, K., Trif, A., & Czarzasty, J.), Transfer, Volume 31(1): 41-54.
2024    “Transnational social fields of Italian Bangladeshis in Europe and
beyond: Towards a new geography of ways of belonging” (with M. Morad, A.
Ansar), Population, Space and Place, Vol. 30(8), e2819, pp- 1-11:
Doi.org/10.1002/psp.2819.
2024    “Job quality in worker cooperatives: Beyond degeneration and intrinsic
rewards” (with L. Dorigatti, F.E. Iannuzzi, V. Piro), British Journal of
Industrial Relations, Vol 62(3):  591-613.
2024    “Constructing Mobilities: The Reproduction of Posted Workers’
Disposability in the Construction Sector” (with F. Bagnardi, F. A.
Vianello), Work, Employment and Society, 38(6), 1703-1724.
2023    “Locating labour conflict and its organising forms in contemporary
times: between class and the reproduction of capitalism” (with M. Atzeni),
Partecipazione e Conflitto, Vol. 16 (2): 205-215 (also published in Global
Labour Journal, 14(3): 207-219).
2023    “Constructing a transnational childcare bricolage: Chinese migrant
families in Italy coordinating transnational mobility and childcare” (with
Ru Gao), European Societies, 26(3), 880–907.
2023    “Mobility, turnover and labour” (with G. Alberti), Cartografie sociali
no. 15, pp. 97-113.
2022    “Productive boundaries and labour boundaries. The multidimensionality
of outsourcing in contemporary capitalism” (with F. E. Iannuzzi),
Sociologia del lavoro, Vol. 164: 140-161.
2022    “Outsourcing and workers’ resistance practices in Venice’s hotel
industry: The role of migrants employed by cooperatives” (with F.E.
Iannuzzi), Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 43(2): 877–897.
2022    “Shattered Dreams and the Return Home: Bangladeshi Migrant Workers in
the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries During COVID-19” (with Morad M. Rabby
A., Haque N.), Dve domovini/Two Homelands, 56, pp. 21-34.
2021    “Subcontracted racial capitalism: the interrelationship of race and
production in meat processing plants” (with V. Piro), Work in the Global
Economy, vol. 1-2, pp. 33-53.
2021    “The dark side of onward migration: Experiences and strategies of
Italian-Bangladeshis in the UK at the time of the post-Brexit referendum”
(with M. Morad, F. Della Puppa), British Journal of Sociology, vol. 72 (5),
1311-1324.
2021    “The work-technology nexus and working-class environmentalism:
Workerism versus capitalist noxiousness in Italy’s Long 1968” (with L.
Feltrin), Theory and Society, 50(5): 815-835.
2021    “For the Future of the Children? The Onward Migration of Italian
Bangladeshis in Europe” (with M. Morad), International Migration, 59 (6):
142-155.
2020    “Zones of variegated sovereignty: systems of control and protections for
posted workers” (with F. E. Iannuzzi), Meridiana, no. 99, pp.
177-198.
2020    “Labour segmentation and trade union strategies in the meat
industry (with V. Piro), Stato e mercato, vol. 3, pp. 515-542.
2020    “Migration, Ethnicity and Solidarity: ‘Multinational Workers’ in
the Former Soviet Union” (with C. Morrison, R. Croucher), British Journal of
Industrial Relations, 58 (4), 761-784.
2020    “The Mobility of Workers living at work in Europe” (with A.
Ceccagno), Current Sociology, Vol. 68 (3), pp. 299-315.
2020     “Transgressing North–South Divide: Foxconn Production Regimes in
China and the Czech Republic” (with Pun Ngai, Andrijasevic R.), Critical
Sociology, 46 (2): 307-322.
2020    “A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe?”, (with A. Ceccagno),
International Migration, Volume 58, (3), pp. 73-86.
2020    “One firm, two countries, one workplace model? The case of Foxconn’s
internationalization” (with R. Andrijasevic, Ngai Pun) The Economic and
Labour Relations Review, vol. 31 (2), pp. 262-278.
2020    “Multiple Migration and Use of Ties: Bangladeshis in Italy and
Beyond”, (with M. Morad), International Migration, 58 (4): 154-167.
2019    “Frontières mobiles. Processus migratoires, travail et
reconfiguration de la politique” (with Vando Borghi), Tumultes, vol. 53,
pp.35-53.
2019    “Border assemblages. Foxconn women workers in Ciudad Juárez,
Messico”, (with M. E. Cecchi), Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa, no. 1, pp.
3-28.
2018    “Research ethics in an unethical world: The politics and morality of
engaged research” (with C. Morrison), Work Employment and Society, 32(6):
pp. 1118-1129.
2017    “The just-in-time of life. Global production networks and spatio-temporal
compression at Foxconn” (with R. Andrijasevic), Stato e mercato, vol.
3, p. 383-420.
2017    “Space and time in productive and reproductive processes” (with G.
Alberti, F. A. Vianello), Sociologia del lavoro, vol. 146, pp. 7-24.
2017    “Disappearing Workers’: Foxconn in Europe and the changing role of
Temporary Work Agencies” (with R. Andrijasevic), Work, Employment and
Society, 31 (1), pp. 54-70.
2016    “Intra-EU labour migration: models, practices and mobility
trajectories of European citizens” (with R. Andrijasevic, F. A. Vianello),
Mondi Migranti no. 3, pp. 23-31.
2016    “Multinational assembly and strategies of emancipation. The case
of the tourism sector on the Romagna Riviera” (with F. E. Iannuzzi),
pp.135-148, Quaderni di Sociologia, vol. 3 (72), pp. 135-148.
2016    “Chains of labour and migration between Veneto and Romania” (with C.
Morrison), Quaderni di ricerca sull’Artigianato, no. 3: 399-419.
2016    “Producción global, agencias de empleo temporal y precarización
laboral en la frontera México-Estadounidense” (with M. E. Cecchi), Boletín
Onteaiken, 22: 11-31
2016    “Migrant workers’ routes to the informal economy during the economic
crisis: structural constraints and subjective motivations” (with F. A.
Vianello), Prakseologia, vol. 158 (1)
2016    “From labour migration to labour mobility? The return of the
multinational worker in Europe” (with R. Andrijasevic), Transfer: European
Review of Labour and Research, vol. 22 (2): 219-231 (Doi:
10.1177/1024258916635975
2016    “Unemployed Migrants Coping with the Economic Crisis. Romanian and
Moroccan workers in Italy” (with F. A. Vianello), Journal of International
Migration and Integration, 17 (3): 839-852.
2015    “Migrant women and trade union organisations in the crisis” (with F. A.
Vianello), Sociologia del lavoro, no. 140, pp. 159-172.
2015    “Beyond China: Foxconn’s Assembly Plants in Europe” (with R.
Andrijasevic), The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 114 (1), pp. 215-224.
2015    “Introduction” to Against the Day section (with R. Andrijasevic), The
South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 114 (1), pp. 192-4.
2014    “Striking Against Cooperative. Migrants Lead the Way”, Global
Dialogue, Vol. 4 (4), pp. 18-19.
2014    “Made in the EU: Foxconn in the Czech Republic” (with R.
Andrijasevic), WorkingUsa: Journal of Labor and Society, Vol. 17 (3), pp.
391-415.
2014    “Migrant Labor and Temporary Work Agencies in the Case of Foxconn in
the Czech Republic” (with R. Andrijasevic), Urban People/Lidé Města, vol.
16 (2), pp. 285-294.
2014    “History and structure of the constitution of the cooperative enterprise.
Political changes in a social relationship” (with M. Semenzin), Scienza &
Politica, XXVI, no. 50, pp. 43-62.
2014    “Migrant Farmworkers in Southern Italy: Ghettoes, Caporalato and
Collective Action” (with D. Perrotta), Workers of the World, Vol. 1, No. 5,
pp. 75-98.
2014    “Labour mobility in construction: migrant workers’ strategies
between integration and turnover” (with C. Morrison and O. Cretu),
Construction Labour Research, Vol. 2, pp. 33-49.
2014    “Italian enterprises in the Chinese province of Guangdong:
organisation of labour and working conditions in two manufacturing
companies” (with D. Bubbico), Economia & Lavoro vol. 1, pp. 131-150
2013    “International Migration and Labour Turnover: Workers’ Agency in the
Construction Sector of Russia and Italy” (with C. Morrison, O. Cretu),
Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol 5/Issue 2, pp. 7-20     
2013    “Economic crisis and migrants: the return of the poor worker” (with
F. A. Vianello), Mondi migranti, vol. 1, pp. 79-99.
2013    “Coresearch and Counter-Research: Romano Alquati’s Itinerary Within
and Beyond Italian Radical Political Thought” (with E. Armano, and S. Wright),
Viewpoint Magazine, No. 3 (September). Also published in Armano E. (ed.),
Inquiry and Co-research today. Contemporary Practices and Perspectives,
Buenos Aires, Teseo, 2025, pp. 153-170.
2013    “The management and production of differences: race and racism in
Italian labour processes” (with G. Grappi), Studi culturali, No. 2
(August), 315-322.
2013    “Les ouvriers agricoles étrangers dans l’Italie méridionale. Entre
‘séclusion’ et action collective” (with D. Perrotta), Revue Hommes et
migrations. no. 1301 (January-February-March), pp. 57-66.
2012    “The ghetto and the strike: foreign farm labourers in Southern
Italy”, Sociologia del lavoro, no. 128, pp. 152-166 (with D. Perrotta).
2011    “The strike of the Nardò farm labourers”, Lo straniero, year XV, no.
136 (October), pp. 19-25 (with M. Perrotta).
2011    “Internal and international immigration in a regional employment
system”, Sociologia del lavoro, no. 121, pp. 79-95.
2010    “Przenoszenie produkcji za granice i migracie. Przypadek
poludniowo-wschodniej i srodkowo-wschodniej Europy”, Przeglad
Anarchistyczny, no. 11, pp. 192-201
2010    “Chains of international production and new cycles of
proletarianisation”, Fenomenologia e società, vol. 4, p. 64-84.
2007    “Intergenerational Inheritance of Inequalities in Perceptions and
experiences of Young Adults in Middle-Sized Town of Italy” (with V. Longo,
E. Quadrelli), European Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion, vol.
1-2, pp. 111-136.
2007    “Main results Obtained in Italy” (with A. Del Re, V. Longo), European
Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion, vol. 3-4, pp. 124-132.
2007    “Offshore Outsourcing and Migrations: the South-Eastern and Central
Eastern European Case” The Commoner no. 12 (Spring/Summer),
www.thecommoner.org
2006    “Rovigo: Between community and market” (with V. Longo, F. A.
Vianello), European Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion, vol. 3-4,
pp. 105-130.
2006    “Italy” (with V. Longo, F. A. Vianello), European Studies on
Inequalities and Social Cohesion, vol. 1-2, pp. 123-134.
2005    “Critical Review of the Italian Literature Concerning the
Intergenerational Inheritance of Inequalities” (with A. Del Re, V. Longo),
European Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion, vol. 4, pp. 31-77.
2005    “Employment systems and new wars in South-Eastern Europe”,
Conflitti globali, no. 1, pp. 139-159.
2003     “Admissions and rejections. How migration policies are changing”
(with F. Gambino), Novecento, no. 8-9, pp. 105-110.
2000    “A divat szerepöli: olasz cégek Magyarországon”, Szociolológiai
Szemle, no. 1 (2000), pp. 36-49.
2000    “Labour pools in Fincantieri of Porto Marghera”, (co-author
with Merotto G. and Zanin V.), Economia e società regionale, no. 3, pp. 90-105.
1999    “Cruise ships in a war zone”, (co-author with Merotto G.,
Zanin V.), altreragioni no. 9, pp. 13-51.
1998    “Seams and tears towards the East”, altreragioni” no. 7, pp. 27-65.
1998    “The actors of fashion: productive relocation in Hungary”,
Economia e società regionale no. 3, pp. 83-102.
1996    “Knots of controlled autonomy: textiles and clothing in
Veneto”, altreragioni no. 5, pp. 29-46.
1995    “Electoral machines and sewing machines in Central America and
surrounding areas”, altreragioni no.4, pp. 81-92.

Book chapters

2024    “Bangladeshi Migrant Shipbuilders in Italy. Rethinking Precarity and
Livelihood” (with A.A. Rabby) in Shahidur Rahman, Md. Masud-All-Kamal (eds),
Social Transformation in Bangladesh. Pathways, Challenges and the Way
Forward, London: Routledge, pp. 194-209.
2023    “Transnational Corporations and the Making of Global Labor Markets:
The Case of Foxconn in China and Europe” (with Andrijasevic R., Pun N.) in
Boris E., Gottfried H., Greene J., Tham J.-C. (eds), Global Labor
Migration. New Directions, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, pp.
207-223.
2021    “Technologies at work in productive and reproductive processes”, in M.
Peruzzi, D. Sacchetto (eds), Remote work. Legal and sociological
aspects, Giappichelli, Torino, pp. 1-16.
2020    “A nearby industrial hub: labour processes and migration
in Eastern Europe” in Enzo Mingione (ed.), Labour: the great
transformation, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Milano, pp. 173-194.
2020    “Migrant labour and the wage of pandemic risk”, in Luca
Cigna (ed.), Forza Lavoro! Rethinking labour in the time of the pandemic,
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Milano, pp. 125-134.
2020    “Coresearch against the industrialisation of the human” (with E.
Armano) in E. Armano (ed.), Pratiche di inchiesta e conricerca oggi,
Ombre Corte, Verona, pp. 101-111.
2020    “Italian Labour Inspectors Facing Posted Workers Phenomena” (with F.
E. Iannuzzi), in Arnholtz, J. and Lillie, N. (eds) Posted Work in the
European Union. The Political Economy of Free Movement. London: Routledge,
pp. 109–128.
2019    “International migration, labour mobility and HRM” (with O. Cretu, and
C. Morrison) in Prouska R., Roper I. and U. Chatrakul Na Ayudhya (eds),
Critical Issues in Human Resource Management: Contemporary Perspectives,
Macmillan International Higher Education, Basingstoke, pp. 65-84.
2018    “Restructuring Labour Relations and Employment in the European
Logistics Sector: Unions’ responses to a Segmented Workforce” (with C.
Benvegnù, B. Haidinger), in Doellgast V., Lillie N., Pulignano V. (eds),
Reconstructing Solidarity. Labour unions, Precarious work, and the
Politics of Institutional Change in Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press,
pp. 83-103.
2018    “The employment systems of Chinese migrants” (with Ru Gao) in Rasera
M., Sacchetto D. (eds), Cinèṣi tra le maglie del lavoro, Angeli,
Milano, pp. 91-118.
2018    “Chinese wholesale trade: historical and
contemporary perspectives from a global viewpoint on Chinese migrants” (with G. D’Odorico)
in Rasera M., Sacchetto D. (eds), Cinèṣi tra le maglie del lavoro,
Angeli, Milano, pp. 119-144.
2018    “Afterword” in Benvegnù C., Iannuzzi E. F. (eds), Figure
del lavoro contemporaneo, Ombre Corte, Verona, pp. 141-145.
2017    “Contemporary system of labour immigration and management in
Europe” (with R. Andrijasevic) in J. Olvera García, N. Baca Tavira, M.
Ricciardi, S. Sanhueza Henríquez (eds), Migrazione e lavoro nel
capitalismo globale, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca de
Lerdo, pp. 111-135 (translated into Spanish: “Sistema contemporàneo de
migraciòn laboral y gestòn en Europa” in Ibidem, Migración y trabajo en
el capitalismo global, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca de
Lerdo, pp. 115-139).
2017    “The multinational worker in Europe. Constraints and
mobilisations” (with R. Andrjiasevic), in Chignola S., Sacchetto D. (eds)
Le reti del valore. Migrazioni, produzione e governo della crisi, Derive
& Approdi, Roma, pp. 12-30.
2017    “Introduction” (with S. Chignola), in Chignola S., Sacchetto D. (eds)
Le reti del valore. Migrazioni, produzione e governo della crisi, Derive
& Approdi, Roma, pp. 5-11.
2016    “Foxconn beyond China: Capital–labour relations as co-determinants
of internationalization’” (with R. Andrijasevic) in Chris Smith , Mingwei
Liu (eds) China at Work. A Labour Process Perspective on the
Transformation of Work and Employment in China, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.
337-360
2016    “Introduction” (with R. Andrijasevic, J. Drahokoupil) in R.
Andrijasevic, J. Drahokoupil, D. Sacchetto (eds), Flexible workforces
and low profit margins: electronics assembly between Europe and China, Etui,
Brussels, pp. 7-18.
2016    “The case of Foxconn in Turkey: benefiting from free labour and
anti-union policy’” (with R. Andrijasevic) in R. Andrijasevic, J.
Drahokoupil, D. Sacchetto (eds), Flexible workforces and low profit
margins: electronics assembly between Europe and China, Etui, Brussels, pp.
113-130.
2016    “Workers’ cooperatives in Italy: between solidarity and autocratic
centralism” (with M. Semenzin), in Pun Ngai, Ku Hok Bun, Yan Hairong and
Anita Koo (eds), Social Economy in China and the World, Routledge,
Abingdon and New York, pp. 135-155.
2015    “On the twilight of a subalternity” (with F. Gambino), afterword
in Graziano Merotto, La fabbrica rovesciata. Comunità e classi nei circuiti
dell’elettrodomestico, Derive & Approdi, Roma, pp. 399-404.
2015    “At the assembly line under a triple shroud” (with F. Gambino), in
Ferruccio Gambino, Devi Sacchetto (eds), Morire per un iPhone (by Pun
Ngai, Jenny Chan, Mark Selden), Jaca Book, Milano, pp. 11-21
2015    “From China to Europe: the long wave of Foxconn” (with R.
Andrijasevic) in Ferruccio Gambino, Devi Sacchetto (eds), Nella
fabbrica globale. Vite al lavoro e resistenze operaie nei laboratori della
Foxconn, Ombre corte, Verona, pp. 187-215
2015    “A new gymnasium of social research” (with F. Gambino) in
Ferruccio Gambino, Devi Sacchetto (eds), Nella fabbrica globale. Vite
al lavoro e resistenze operaie nei laboratori della Foxconn, Ombre corte,
Verona, pp. 7-14
2014    “Migrant Labour between Russia and Italy: From Strategic Options to
'Geography of Needs'” (with C. Morrison), in Mojca Pajnik, Floya Anthias (eds),
Work and Challenges of Belonging: Migrants in Globalizing
Economies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastel Upon Tyne, pp. 29-49.
2013    “Introduction” (with F. A. Vianello) in Sacchetto D., Vianello F. A.
(eds), Navigando a vista. Migranti nella crisi economica tra lavoro e
disoccupazione, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 5-20.
2013    “In the waves of the crisis: between unstable employment and
generic labour” in Sacchetto D., Vianello F. A. (eds), Navigando a vista.
Migranti nella crisi economica tra lavoro e disoccupazione, Franco Angeli,
Milano, pp. 123-153.
2013    “The Shifting Maelstrom: From Plantations to Assembly-Lines” (with F.
Gambino) in Marcel M. van der Linden, Karl Heinz Roth (eds), Beyond Marx.
Confronting Labour-History and the Concept of Labour with the Global
Labour-Relations of the Twenty-First Century, Brill, London, pp. 89-120
(translation of the 2009 German text).
2013    “Integration verschiedener Arbeitsregime? Foxconn in Tschechien”
(with R. Andrijasevic) in Pun Ngai et al., iSlave. Ausbeutung und Widerstand in
Chinas Foxconn Fabriken, Mandelbaum, Wien, pp. 219-245. Translated into Polish:
(2013) ‘Inegracja roznych rezimow pracy? Foxconn w Czechach’. In
Niewolnicy apple’a. Poznan: Bractwa Trojka, 191-213.
2013    “Migration and labour in Italian sociology”, in Mezzadra S.,
Ricciardi M. (eds),  Movimenti indisciplinati. Migrazioni, migranti e
discipline scientifiche, Ombre Corte, Verona, pp. 50-67.
2012    “The thorns of global liquid labour” (with F. Gambino) in Pun Ngai,
Cina, la società armoniosa. Sfruttamento e resistenza degli operai migranti,
Jaca Book, Milano, pp. IX-XXVIII
2012    “‘A small feeling of victory’. Notes on the strike of
Nardo” (with M. Perrotta), in Various Authors, Sulla pelle viva, Derive &
Approdi, Roma, pp. 9-55.
2011    “Xenophobia or Democratic Differentiation? A New Path of Separation
and Discipline for Migrant Workers in Italy” in Huysseune M. (ed.)
Contemporary Centrifugal Regionalism: Comparing Flanders and Northern Italy,
Brussel, Kvab, . p. 141-155
2011    “The restless one: the travelling technician” in Bajani A., Perrotta M.
(eds), Bucarest-Roma. Capire la Romania e i romeni in Italia, Edizioni
dell’Asino, Roma, pp. 137-152.
2011    “Extreme investments: the EU tested at its limits” in
Sacchetto D. (ed.), Ai margini dell’Unione europea. Spostamenti e
insediamenti a Oriente, Carocci, Roma, pp. 51-74.
2010  “Migration, families, incomes and consumption: notes starting
from the experience of Eastern Europe” (with P. Cingolani, C. Cristea, M.
Perrotta, V. Redini, F. A. Vianello) in Osservatorio Regionale
sull’immigrazione (ed.), Immigrazione straniera in Veneto. Rapporto
2010, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 191-224
2009    “Class experiences” in D. Sacchetto and G. Sbrogiò (eds),
Quando il potere è operaio. Autonomia e soggettività politica a Porto
Marghera (1960-1980), Manifestolibri, Roma, pp. 166-287
2009    “Die Formen Des Mahlstroms. Von den Plantagen zu den Fließbändern”
(with F. Gambino), in M. van der Linden, K. H. Roth (eds), Űber Marx Hinaus,
Assoziation A. Berlin&Hamburg, pp. 115-155.
2009    “When Political Subjectivity Takes Root. The Case of Porto Marghera
(Italy)” in A. Ebbinghaus, M. Henninger, M. van der Linden (eds), 1968. A
View of the Protest Movements 40 Years After, From a Global Perspective, Ith,
Wien, pp. 65-80.
2009    “Mobility and labour: social and economic repercussions of migration
in Moldavia, Romania and Ukraine” (with P. Cingolani, C. Cristea, M. Perrotta,
V. Redini, F. A. Vianello) in Osservatorio Regionale sull’immigrazione (ed.),
Immigrazione straniera in Veneto. Rapporto 2009, Franco Angeli,
Milano, pp. 187-213
2008            “The construction of differentiated employment systems” in Alisa
Del Re (ed.), Manuale di Pari Opportunità: Per un orientamento sulle
politiche di genere, Cleup, Padua, pp. 217-233
2008    “Mobility of labour power and capital. Some notes starting
from the experiences of Eastern Europe” in Sacchetto D., Tomba M (eds),
La lunga accumulazione originaria. Politica e lavoro nel mercato
mondiale, Ombre Corte, Verona, pp. 139-156.
2008    “The last fires at Porto Marghera” in C. Arruzza (ed.), Cosa
vogliamo? Vogliamo tutto. Il ’68 quarant’anni dopo, Roma, Edizioni
Alegre, pp. 180-190.
2008    “Life stories in the kaleidoscope of labour” in C. Bermani, A. De
Palma (eds), Fonti orali. Istruzioni per l’uso, Società di mutuo
soccorso E. De Martino, Venezia, pp. 159-180.
2007    “Forms and limits of mobility between Italy and Romania after the fall
of the Berlin Wall” (with F. Gambino) in Gambino F., Sacchetto D. (eds)
Un arcipelago produttivo. Migranti e imprenditori tra Italia e Romania,
Carocci, Roma, pp. 17-37.
2007    “Islanders of the archipelago. Delocalisers and labour force in
Romania” in Gambino F., Sacchetto D. (eds) Un arcipelago produttivo.
Migranti e imprenditori tra Italia e Romania, Carocci, Roma, pp. 133-170.
2007    “From autonomy of movement to isolation. Transformations of
maritime labour” in Viti F. (ed.), Lavoro, dipendenza personale e
rapporti familiari, Edizioni Il Fiorino, Modena, pp. 69-100.
2006    “New and old actors in the European space” in S. Cingari (ed.),
Europa Cittadinanza Confini. Dialogando con Etienne Balibar, Lecce,
Pensa Multimedia, pp. 161-180.
2006    “An area of stigmatised manual labour” in Vianello F. (ed.),
Ai margini della città. Forme del controllo e risorse sociali nel nuovo
ghetto, Roma, Carocci, pp. 118-141, 152-159, 161-168.
2004    “On female employment in Italy”, in Del Re A.
(ed.), Quando le donne governano le città, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp.
41-57.
2003    “Cars towards the East: the internationalisation of production”, in
Bubbico D., Cillis G., Cristiani M., Pirone F., Sacchetto D., Fiat e indotto
auto nel Mezzogiorno, Meta Edizioni, Roma, pp. 22-24.
2003    “Traditional and Modern Family Responses to Italian Family
Diversity” (with Longo V.) in Louise Appleton and Linda Hantrais (eds),
Cross-National Research Papers, 6 (6) Country Case Studies, pp. 67-73.
2003    “Work and Family Flexibility: an Interpretation of Italian
Transformation” in Ackers P. (ed.), Cross-National Research Papers, 6(3)
The Employment Relationship and Family Life,  pp. 7-13.
2002     “The gang of the shipyard” in Zanin V. (ed.), Organizzazione e
trasformazioni nella navalmeccanica: il caso della Fincantieri di Porto
MargheraPadova, Cleup, pp. 87-111.
2002     “The life of teachers” in Dal Lago A., De Biasi R. (eds),
Un certo sguardo. Introduzione all'etnografia sociale, Bari, Laterza, pp.
245-268.
2000    “Spatial aspects of socio-demographic change in Italy”, in Appleton
L. (ed.), Spatio-Temporal Dimensions of Economic and Social Change in Europe,
Leicestershire, Cross National Research Papers (2), pp. 43-49.

Reviews

2026    Monisha Das Gupta, All of us or none. Migrant organizing in an era of
deportation and dispossession, Durham and London, Duke University Press,
2024, pp. 280, Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 49 (13).
2022    Massimiliano Mollona, Cristina Papa, Veronica Redini, Valeria
Siniscalchi, Antropologia delle imprese: Lavoro, reti, merci, Roma, Carocci,
2021, pp. 220”, Anuac, 11(1), pp. 187-189. doi:
10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5268.
2021    Antonella Ceccagno, City Making & Global Labor Regimes. Chinese
Immigrants and Italy’s Fast Fashion Industry, Cham, Palgrave Mac Millan,
2017, 301 pp., Quaderni di Teoria Sociale no. 1, pp. 305-308.
2014    Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Migrants for Export. How the Philippine State
Brokers Labor to the World, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2010
(published in Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa no. 1, pp. 160-162).
2010    Veronica Redini, Frontiere del “made in Italy”. Delocalizzazione
produttiva e identità delle merci (published in Etnografia e ricerca
qualitativa vol. 1, pp. 135-136)
2008    Alvise Sbraccia, Migranti tra mobilità e carcere. Storie di vita e
processi di criminalizzazione, Milano, Franco angeli, 2010 (published in
Antigone vol. 3, pp. 171-175).
2008    Grandi F., Tanzi E., La città meticcia, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2007
(published in Studi Emigrazione vol. 172, pp. 1003-1005).
2007    Vacca G., Rhi-Sausi L. I dilemmi dell’integrazione, Bologna, Il
Mulino, 2006 (published in Studi Emigrazione vol. 167, pp. 782-784).
2006    Ambrosini M; Berti F; (eds) Immigrazione e lavoro, Sociologia del
lavoro, 2003, no. 89 (published in Studi Emigrazione vol. 161, pp. 207-209).
2006    Casella Paltrinieri (ed.), Un futuro in gioco. Tra muridi
senegalesi e comunità italiana, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2006 (published in
Studi Emigrazione Vol. 164, pp. 1012-1014)

Translations
2003    “Italy as a country of immigration. Social relations and
legal forms” (from French) by F. Gambino, published in F. Gambino,
Migranti nella tempesta. Avvistamenti per l’inizio del nuovo millennio,
Ombre Corte, Verona, pp. 25-35.
2003    “The moment of the camp. The illusion of transit in a
province of the Italian Northeast” (from English) by F. Gambino, published
in F. Gambino, Migranti nella tempesta. Avvistamenti per l’inizio del nuovo
millennio, Ombre Corte, Verona, pp. 101-117.
1997    “South Korea: revolt against liberalism”, (from English with R.
Mungiello), by Su-Dol-Kang, published in Altreragioni, no. 6, pp. 93-108.
1995    “Dynamics of the political crisis and change in class composition in
the United States” (from English with R. Mungiello), by W. Mc Tell,
published in Altreragioni, no. 5, pp. 99-118.

Research reports and Working Papers

2023    “Fragmented labour regimes in the Italian Fincanteri shipyards” (with
F.E. Iannuzzi, G. Meardi, N. Quandamatteo, A.A. Rabby, M. Trevisan), Research
report, “Shipping Off Labour: Changing Staffing Strategies in
Globalized Workplaces”.
2022    “Continuity and Change in Workplace Regimes in the Italian
Shipbuilding Industry” (with F. E. Iannuzzi, G. Meardi, N. Quandamatteo,
A.A. Rabby), Research report, “Shipping Off Labour: Changing Staffing
Strategies in Globalized Workplaces”.
2022    The importance of timely data sharing practices in enforcing labour
standards for posted construction workers in Italy (with Bagnardi, F.,
Vianello F.A.), Policy brief 2022/8. Vienna: European Centre.
2014    Women and men workers in Italian clothing and footwear
after globalisation (co-author with D. Bubbico and V. Redini), European project
“Mobilising Europe for a living wage for garment workers”
promoted by the Clean Clothes Campaign..
2011    “Social and labour repercussions of the economic crisis (2008-2010)
among immigrants in Veneto” (ed.), Veneto Lavoro, Venezia.
2009    “Economic changes and social repercussions of migration and
delocalisation in Moldavia, Romania and Ukraine” (ed.), Veneto
Lavoro, Venezia.
2007    “Subjectivities and political trajectories in Porto Marghera in the
1960s-1970s”, Municipality of Venezia.
2007    “Investment flows and the fate of the labour force: the case of the
textile and clothing sector” (co-author with M. Perrotta), Province of Venezia.
2005    “The memory of water” (with Antonella De Palma), Archivio della
memoria, Società di Mutuo Soccorso Ernesto de Martino di Venezia, pp. 143.
2005    “The port of Venezia: the gateway to the East” (co-author with Longo
V., G. Merotto G., Zanin V.), pp. 9-11; 27-29; 56-147; 169-183.
2005    “The change in the relations between the actors of  EU countries and
the Euro-Mediterranean societies”, Working Paper within the
European research project “European Liberty and Security: Security Issues, Social
Cohesion and Institutional Development of the European Union”
(Elise-Serd-2002-00124, DGXII-European Community).
2005    “Critical Review of the Italian Literature concerning
Intergenerational Inheritance of Inequalities” (co-author with V. Longo and F.
Vianello) within the European research project “Policy Responses Overcoming
Factors in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequalities (Profit).
2004    “Economic and Social Developments between Wars and Truces after
September 11th”, 2001, Working Paper within the European research
project “European Liberty and Security: Security Issues, Social Cohesion and
Institutional Development of the European Union” (ELISE-SERD-2002-00124,
DGXII-European Community).
2005    “Critical Review of the Italian Literature concerning
Intergenerational Inheritance of Inequalities” (co-author with V. Longo and F.
Vianello) within the European research project “Policy Responses Overcoming
Factors in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequalities (Profit).
2004    “Economic and Social Developments between Wars and Truces after
September 11th”, 2001, Working Paper within the European research
project “European Liberty and Security: Security Issues, Social Cohesion and
Institutional Development of the European Union” (ELISE-SERD-2002-00124,
DGXII-European Community).
2004    “Female migration flows from Central and Eastern Europe between
flight and constraint”, in Ministero del lavoro e della previdenza sociale (ed.), Donne in fuoriuscita dalla prostituzione, pp. 49-55.
2004    “Tertiarisation of public activities and new social profiles in
Piacenza” (co-author with Longo V.), pp. 126.
2004    “Permanent observatory on decentralised bargaining in the
province of Venezia. First research report” (co-author with Longo V.,
Merotto G. Tartaglia L.), pp. 140.
2002    “Maritime workers. Social profiles and new service demands”,
(co-author with Longo V., G. Merotto G., Zanin V.), Osservatorio politiche
sociali, Venezia, pp. 23-26, 34-38, 40-45, 47-49, 53-66, 73-76.
2002    “Migration flows and socio-economic stabilisations in the
post-Cold War period”, Working Paper within the MURST research project
“Migrant labour and new wars”, University of Padua, Department of
Sociology.
2001    “Post-war enclosures, migration and relaunching employment in
Kosovo”, Working Paper within the MURST project “Migrant labour
and new wars”, University of Padua, Department of Sociology.
2000    “Fincantieri, global factory and territory”, (co-author with Merotto
G, Zanin V.), Osservatorio Politiche sociali, Venezia, pp. 159.
1997    “The ‘Benetton system’, Final report”, (with Visentin S.),
Confartigianato Research on Localised Production Systems, pp. 30.

ORGANISATION OF CONVENTIONS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

2026    Workshop “Studying Work Across Disciplinary and Geographical
Boundaries” (with R. Andrjiasevic, Pun Ngai), University of Padua, 4-5 May.
2026    Workshop “Reflecting on Italy’s Workerism”, University of Padua,
27 April.
2026    Special Stream “Labour Migration and the Labour Process:
Transformations in Labour Mediation” (with O. Gheorghiev, G. Alberti, P.
Birke, M Dolezalova, V. Piro, F.A. Vianello), 44 ILPC, University of Leeds
(22-24 April).
2026    Workshop “Transitions: professional skills and technological
innovation in the automotive sector” (co-organiser), University of Padua,
13 January.
2025    Workshop “Sharing and co-producing knowledge in migrant labour
research”, University of Padua (co-organiser), 10-11 February
2024    Special Stream “Housing Workers: Reproduction and Production of Labour
Power” (with C. Smith, Pun Ngai and C. Goodburn), 42 ILPC, University of
Gottingen (3-5 April).
2023    Workshop “Social Reproduction of Labour. The Place of Accommodation
and Migration” (with O. Fedyuk, C. Smith, F. A. Vianello, Y. Zheng), 26-27
October, University of Padua.
2023    Workshop “New Directions in Labour Process Theory” (with F. Bagnardi,
V. Maccarrone, F.A. Vianello, Padua (26-27 January).
2022    Coordinator of the panel “Labour between mobility and immobility” (with F.
E. Iannuzzi, V. Piro, D. Sacchetto, F. A. Vianello), Sisec, Bologna (8-11
June).
2022    “40° International Labour Process Conference” (Member of the
organising group), University of Padua (20-23 April)
2021    Coordinator of the panel “Remote work and local communities. Transformations
of work, territories and citizenship and their implications for social
policies (with F. Campolongo, F.E. Iannuzzi, V. Piro, A.-I. Romens), XIV
ESPAnet Italia Conference (8–11 September)-Online.
2020    Seminar “Remote work: experiences, work-life balance, regulation”
(webinar), University of Padua, (30 March).
2020    Seminar series: “Days of Sociology of Labour” (22 October,
20 November, 15 December) (co-organiser with the editorial team of the journal
Sociologia del lavoro).
2020    Coordinator of the panel “Representation, solidarity and conflicts in
the transformations of labour (with L. Dorigatti, M. Rinaldini), IV Sisec
Conference, University of Torino (30 January-1 February).
2019    “Italy in the International Labour Organization: a
historical assessment. 1919-2019” (co-organiser with L. Mechi, A. Sitzia, 6-7
December), University of Padua.
2019    “Labour & the Politics of Trade” (with A. Gentile, P. Graziano),
University of Padua (23-25 October).
2019    Coordinator of the panel “Representation and resistance: trade unions, their
comfort zones and the new and hybrid forms of representation” (with G.
Alberti, Bettina Haidinger, U. Holtgrewew), ILPC, University of Vienna (24-26
April).
2018    “Assemblages and dis-assemblages. Social and trade union practices in
slaughtering” (Padua 17 December, co-organiser with Valeria Piro).
2018    “Enhancing Economic Democracy for Posted Workers” (Padua 14-15
June, co-organiser with F. E. Iannuzzi)   
2018    Coordinator of the panel “The changing time and space of productive and
reproductive processes: implications for worker organization North and
South” (with G. Alberti and Pedro Lisdero), ILPC Conference, Buenos Aires
(21-23 March).
2018    Member of the Scientific Committee of the Conference “Territories, mobility,
labours”, promoted by Ais-section Territory (Padua 21-23 February)
2017    Coordinator of the panel “The labour of cities. The cities of labour.
Transformations of labour, change in the urban process and policies”
(co-organiser with V. Borghi, Espanet, Forlì (21-23 September).
2017    Cooperative Pathways Meeting (University of Padua, 8-9 June,
co-organiser with D. Perrotta).
2017    The Labour of Hospitality: Migration, Production and Political Economy
(University of Padua, 31 May,  co-organiser with F. Iannuzzi).
2017    “Logistics: Labour, Infrastructures, Territories” (University of
Padua, 3-4 April, co-organiser with C. Benvegnù and S. Chignola).
2017    Coordinator of the Panel “Global value chains vs./& Foundational
economy? Transformations of contemporary capitalism and research
perspectives, First SISEC Conference (Società italiana di sociologia economica),
26-29 January 2017 (co-organiser with V. Borghi)     
2016    “Migrant workers and labour citizenship. Forms of labour and of
mobilisation” (University of Padua, 21 June) (co-organiser with F.
A. Vianello).
2016    “Globalisation and crisis. Labour, migration, value” (University
of Padua 4-5 February) (co-organiser with S. Chignola).
2015    “Testing EU citizenship as ‘labour citizenship’: Round table on
the cases of hospitality industry and warehouses (University of Padua, 23
October) (co-organiser with F. A. Vianello).
2014    “Forms of Labour in Europe and China. The Case of Foxconn”
(University of Padua, 26-27 June) (co-organiser with R. Andrijasevic).
2014    Coordinator of the panel: Time, Space and Labour”, Conference of Etnografia e
ricerca qualitativa, Bergamo (5-7 June)
2010    Conference “Women, politics, utopia”, University of Padua (14-15
May) (co-organiser)
2010    Annual conference of the Department of Sociology “The construction
of the other: gazes, discourses, experiences”, 11-12-13 March
(co-organiser).
2010    Conference “Working elsewhere. Legal, economic and social
aspects of the transnational posting of workers, Faculty of Political Science,
Padua (29 January) (co-organiser with Andrea Sitzia, Donata Favero).
2009    International conference “Economic and Social Transformations in
Central and Eastern Europe”, Faculty of Political Science, Padua (7
May).
2008    Conference “Politics and the World Market: 150 years since Marx’s
Grundrisse”, Faculty of Political Science, Padua (11-12 January)
(co-organiser with Massimiliano Tomba).
2006    International seminar “Migration and delocalisation in South-Eastern
Europe”, Faculty of Political Science, Padua (31 May)
(co-organiser with Flavia Pristinger).

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONVENTIONS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

2026    “Migrant Labour Struggles and Unions: Mobility Power and Collective
Strategies” (with P. Birke), 44 ILPC, University of Leeds (22-24 April).
2026    “Adaptation and strategies of migrants between regulatory transformations and
access to labour”, (with G. Magnano), Sisec, Firenze (28-31 January).
2026    “The Labour Fix: Conflict, Cooperation, and Workforce Reorganisation
in Europe’s Green Automotive Transition” (with G. Julio Medel), Sisec,
Firenze (28-31 January).
2026    “Global Labour Governance: an integrated approach” (Discussant),
Scuola Normale Superiore, Firenze, 19 January.
2026    “The uncertain restructuring of automotive supply between
Italy and Poland” (with G. Julio-Medel), University of Padua, 13 January.
2025    “One Factory, Many Regimes: Outsourcing, Migrant Labour, and the
Politics of Production in Italian Shipyards” (with N. Quondamatteo, F. E.
Iannuzzi), Work Employment and Society Conference, Manchester (8-10
September).
2025    “Skills Transition within the Reconfiguration of the Automotive
Industry: Between Anticipation and Reality” (with G. D'Onofrio, G.
Julio-Medel), 5th ISA Forum of Sociology (Rabat, 6-11 July 2025).
2025    “The Swimmers: Labour Turnover Against the Cage of the Collective
Agreement” (with G. Julio-Medel, K. Rakowska), 5th ISA Forum of Sociology
(Rabat, 6-11 July 2025)
2025    “Large contracts, large precariousness”, Festival Works di Vittorio Veneto
(10 May).
2025    “The labour fix. Workers and Unions within the shifting Automotive
Supply Chain”, 43 ILPC, 23 – 25 April, Santiago, Chile.
2025    “The “Green” Automotive Transition from Above and the Labour Fix:
Workers and Unions within the Shifting Automotive Supply Chain,” Marx in
the Anthropocene Conference, 11 – 14 March, Venezia.
2025    “How long do we have to wait?”, Karmina, Bratislava (20 March).
2025    “The swimmers: turnover as resistance against the cage of the
collective agreement” (with G. Julio-Medel, K. Rakowoska), Sisec, Pavia (29
January-1 February).
2024    “Italian and Polish workers’ positioning at the crossroads of the
automotive technological transition” (with G. Julio-Medel), VII
International Conference “Social Boundaries of Work”, University of
Wrocław 16-18 October.
2024    “Employers’ Management and Workers’ Strategies of (Im)mobility in
a European Production Network: The Fincantieri Case”, Final Conference of
the Project Multiple Ethnic Inequalities (MEI), 9-10 October, University of
Milano.
2024    “Transnational labour supermobility in a multinational company: The
Fincantieri/Vard case” (with Wagner I.), Conference The International
Political Economy of Labor Migration The Next Great Transformation? July
18–20, University of Duisburg-Essen.
2024    “Companies and Intermediaries’ Strategies and (Im)mobility Labour
Regimes”, (with K. Jaehrling and I. Wagner), 42 ILPC, University of Gottingen
(3-5 April).
2024    “One factory, many regimes. Outsourcing, segmentation and industrial
relations in Fincantieri yards” (with F. E. Iannuzzi, G. Meardi, N.
Quandamatteo), Sisec, Cagliari (31 January-3 February).
2023    “Outsourcing and the multiplication of factory regimes in the Italian
shipbuilding industry. The case of Fincantieri” (with F. E. Iannuzzi, N.
Quondamatteo), ISA Conference, Melbourne (25 June-1 July).
2023    “The nexus between mobility and mobilization. ‘Indie’ unionism in
the Italian meat processing sectors” (with V. Piro), 41st ILPC, University
of Strathclyde (12-14 April).
2023    “Job quality in worker cooperatives: Beyond degeneration and intrinsic
rewards” (with L. Dorigatti, F. E. Iannuzzi, V. Piro), 41st ILPC, University
of Strathclyde (12-14 April).
2023    “Fragmented labour regimes in the Italian Fincanteri shipyards” (with
F.E. Iannuzzi, G. Meardi, N. Quondamatteo, A.A. Rabby, M. Trevisan), Workshop
“Shipping Off Labour: Changing Staffing Strategies in Globalized
Workplaces”, Brussels (28-29 March).
2023    “Divergences and convergences in the crisis of migrant labour”, Conference
Migrazioni: governo dell'emergenza e pratiche di trasformazione, University
of Salerno, 24 March.
2023    “The institutionalisation of low-paid labour in cooperatives: a study
of three sectors” (with L. Dorigatti, F. E. Iannuzzi, V. Piro, Sisec,
Brescia (8-11 February)
2022    “Labour exploitation”, Summer School of Sociology of
Migration, Genova (5 July).
2022    “Migration and Labour”, Labour Transfer Summer School, Buggerru
(15-18 June).
2022    “Continuity and Change in Workplace Regimes in the Italian
Shipbuilding Industry” With F. E. Iannuzzi, G. Meardi, N. Quandamatteo, A.A.
Rabby, Workshop ShipGlobal, Oslo (23-24 May).
2022    “Retrenchment’, ‘Disruption’ and ‘Re-organisation’: Double
Mobility Practices and the Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the European
Shipbuilding Sector (with Ines Wagner et al.), 40° ILPC Conference,
University of Padua (20-23 April).
2022    “Beyond the core-periphery approach. The transformation of workplace
regimes in the Italian shipbuilding industry” (with F. E. Iannuzzi, G.
Meardi, N. Quondamatteo), 40° ILPC Conference, University of Padua (20-23
April).
2021    “International recruitment in shipbuilding. The Italian case” (with
G. Meardi, N. Quondamatteo, F. E. Iannuzzi), 15th ESA Conference, (31
August--3 September), Barcellona.
2021    “Contemporary Perspectives on Social Inequalities in Europe”
(discussant), WORCK Conference 2/ELHN Conference 4: Historicising the Concept
of Europe in Global History, (30 August–3 September), Vienna.
2021    “Retrenchment, Disruption and Re-organisation: The Impact of the
COVID-19 Pandemic on an Internationalised Sector” (with I. Wagner, et al.),
Ilera Congress, Lund (21-24 June)
2021    “Migration infrastructures. The role of recruitment agencies in the
European Union” (with A. Abbati, C. Morrison), Thirty Years of Capitalist
Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe: Inequalities and social
resistance, Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Cluj Napoca.
2021    “The production of difference in meat processing plants in Italy”
(with V. Piro, webinar), XXXIX ILPC Conference, University of Greenwich
2021    “Control and autonomy in remote work: Transferring or transforming
managerial practices when working at a distance?” (with F. Campolongo, F. E.
Iannuzzi, webinar), XXXIX ILPC Conference, University of Greenwich
2021    “Organisation, work-life balance and trade unions tested by remote work (with
insights from ongoing research” (with A.-I. Romens), (webinar),
Seminar: Remote work: experiences, work-life balance, regulation,
University of Padua (30 March).
2020    “Moving beyond the exit-voice dichotomy: The case of migrant workers
in the logistic sector” (with C. Benvegnù) (webinar), Migration und
Arbeit: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven und aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (3-4 December).
2020    “Labour archipelagos: new forms of mobility in Europe”
(webinar), University of Siena (22 May).
2020    “Shaping labour markets in EU. The ‘new’ skills of migrant
workers”, University College Dublin (24 January).
2019    “Total institutions and working conditions”, Conference “The suicidal
phenomenon. The crisis of the person in special working environments,
University of Padua (15 November).
2019    “Navigando a vista. Migranti nella crisi economica tra lavoro e
disoccupazione”, University of Trento (14 November).
2019    “The social sciences and workplaces: tensions, limits,
implications” (with V. Piro), Emancipatory Social Science Today Conference,
University of Parma (26-27 September).
2019    “Theorising Labour Mobility Power through the Lenses of Migration”
(with G. Alberti), Global Labor Migration: Past and Present Conference,
Amsterdam (June 20-22).
2019    “Multiple migrations, Networks, and Transnational Ties: The Case of
Italian Bangladeshi Onward Migrants in Europe” (with M. Morad), The
Migration Conference, University of Bari (18-20 June).
2019    “Labour processes segmentation and forms of solidarity. The case of
the Italian slaughterhouses” (with V. Piro), ILPC Conference, University of
Vienna (24-26 April).
2019    “The role of intermediaries: formal and informal brokers in food
production” (with V. Piro), 6th International Seminar: Migrations,
Agriculture, Food and Sustainable Development, Ibn Zohr University (Agadir,
21-23 March).
2019    “Intermediation and migrant labour in agri-food” (with V.
Piro), 2° Mondi Migranti Conference, (20 March).
2019    “Gradations of decent labour in global value chains”,
Seminar “Decent labour and inclusion, University of Padua, 16
February.
2019    “Shaping labour markets in EU. The case of ‘multinational worker’
at Foxconn plants”, Labexmed-LEST-IDEMEC, Aix-en-Provence, 12 February.
2019    “From China to Europe: mobile labour and production chains”, Lost,
Milano, 7 February.
2019    “Labour segmentation and unionisation processes: the case
of meat slaughtering” (with V. Piro), III Sisec Conference
“Development and inequalities”, Napoli 31 January-2 February.
2018    “Labour mobilities and the dormitory labour regime in Europe”,
Conference Confinements, Emprisonnements, Détentions, University of Padua
(28 September).
2018    “Grassroots Economics Meaning, Project and Practice in the Pursuit of
Livelihood” (discussant), Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica
- Oñati, (Spagna) (23-26 June)
2018    “The role of dormitories in the mobility of labour power”,
Conference Territori, mobilità, lavori, University of Padua (21-23 February)
2018    “Accommodations at work and workers’ mobility. Perspectives from
Europe” (with A. Ceccagno), ILPC Conference, Universidad Nacional de Buenos
Aires (21-23 March).
2018    “El just-in-time de la vida: red de producción global y comprensión
del tiempo-espacio en la planta de Foxconn de República Checa”, Jornada
Internacional "Problemáticas del trabajo en el Siglo XXI" (19-20 March,
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba/Conicet, Argentina.
2017    “Refugees, migrants and the labour market in the EU. Some notes”,
Conference: “After democracy: new forms of subjectivation” (16-17
November, University of Padua).
2017    “Refugees, migrants and labour market in EU. Some notes”, Conference
“War, Migrations and Labour” (18-20 October, University of Napoli
Federico II)
2017    “The just-in-time of the life. Global production network and
time-space compression at Foxconn plants in Czech Republic”, Instituto de
Investigation Gino Germani, Buenos Aires (12 September).
2017    “Workers Mobilities in Europe”, Made in China Summer School
“Labour and Rights in an Era of Global Precarity: Views from China”,
Venice (17-21 July).
2017    “Migration as a social determinant. Reading inequalities at a
global level”, Seminar “GlobalMente - Rethinking Global
Health”, University of Padua (11 May).
2017    “Value networks and the value of labour. Notes around the concept of
decent labour”, Conference, “For quality guidance and decent work
for all”, (24 March, University of Padua).
2016    “From Socialist to Multinational Electronics Production: The Case of
Foxconn in Eastern Europe” (with M. Čaněk and R. Andrijasevic), 52°
International Conference of labour and social history, “Commodity Chains
and Labour Relations”, Steyr (Austria).
2016    "Labour migration in (post) crisis Europe: Transformations of labour and
social citizenship for migrant workers in the EU" (discussant), Conference
"Work in Crisis", Work, Employment and Society Conference 2016, Leeds (6-8
September).
2016    “Transnationalism, Mobility and Migration in the Sociology of Work: A
Missed Encounter” (with Morrison C.), Third ISA Forum of Sociology (Vienna
10-14 July).
2016    “The precarization of migrants’ lives. An intersectional analysis
based on the Italian case” (with Vianello F. A.), Third ISA Forum of
Sociology (Vienna 10-14 July).
2016    “EU Citizenship, Mobility and Labour Rights”, Imiscoe Conference,
Prague (30 June-2 July).
2016    “Hours, workloads and social stratification in Italy”,
Conference: One year after the introduction of the Jobs Act, Scuola superiore
Sant’Anna, Pisa (20 April).
2016    “Foxconn beyond China: Capital-labour relations and
internationalization” (with R. Andrijasevic), XXXIV ILPC Conference, Berlin
(4-6 April).
2016    “Labour mobility and citizenship. Safeguarding social standards in
Europe”, Conference: Labour mobility and citizenship: Safeguarding social
standards in Europe, Bruxelles (4 April).
2015    “Subcontracting in Italy”, International Conference: Subcontracting
in Europe: Towards Responsibility in Subcontracting Chains organised by
Multicultural Center Prague (MKC) and Masaryk University’s, Brno (27
November).
2015    “One Capital, Two Continents: A Case Study of Employment Relations
Foxconn in Europe and Asia” (with R. Andrijasevic), Seminar: What do we
know about Work and Employment in Chinese MNCs outside of China?, School of
Management, Royal Holloway University of London  (5-6 November).
2015    “Economic crisis and the informalization of migrant labour. A
longitudinal analysis on Romanian and Moroccan workers in Italy” (with
Vianello F. A.), Second international conference: Social boundaries of work.
The varieties of informal work in contemporary societies, Zielona Góra,
Polonia (12-13 November).
2015    “Severely exploited labour and strategies of emancipation. The case
of the tourism sector on the Romagna Riviera”, VIII Espanet
Italia conference (with F. E. Iannuzzi), Salerno (17-19 September)
2015    “From Labour Migration to Labour Mobility? The Spectre of the
Multinational Worker in Europe” (with R. Andrijasevic), Sase Conference,
London School of Economics and Political Science,  (2-4 July).
2015    “Inside and outside the community: life and labour perspectives of
Chinese people in Veneto”, Seminar: Faces and perspectives of Chinese
business realities present in the Veneto Region, University of Venezia
(29 June).
2015    “Workers in retail distribution centres in Italy” (with G. Grappi),
Seminar: Organising the unorganisable? Voices from the bottom up,
Loughborough University (23-24 April).
2015    “Working in an European Free Zone: Foxconn workers in Turkey”, 33°
ILPC Conference, Athens (with R. Andrijasevic) (13-15 April).
2014    “The colour line in labour processes”, First Symposium of the
research group on race and racisms (Intergrace): Around the historical,
social and cultural construction of the body, University of Padua (16 December).
2014    “Prison labour: between marginality and coercion”, Seminar:
Carcere&Lavoro. Analysis, problems, intervention experiences, University of
Padua (15 December).
2014    “Chinese Labour Relations in Europe: The Dormitory Regimes”,
Symposium: Chinese Investments in Europe: Business Strategies and Labour
Impacts, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels (11 December).
2014    “Chains of labour and migration between Veneto and Romania”,
Conference: Storia d’Italia e storia globale, Fondazione Istituto Gramsci,
Roma 4/5 December.
2014    “A new archipelago. Romanian migrants in Italy and Italian
entrepreneurs in Romania”, Seminar: Beyond methodological nationalism:
transnational perspectives on working class mobility in Europe, Middlesex
University, London (9 April).
2014    “One Capital, Two Continents: the Case Study of Foxconn in Europe and
Asia”
XXXII ILPC Conference, King’s College, London (with R. Andrijasevic) (7-9
April).
2014    “Migrant Labor and Temporary Work Agencies in the case of Foxconn in
Czech Republic”, Conference: Beyond Borders. Migration and (In)Equality in
Central Europe in Comparison, organised by MKC and Charles University,
Praga (23-24 January)
2013    “The dissonances of migrant labour in Italy”, Conference: From the point
of view of labour, Società Italiana di Storia del lavoro, Bologna 12-14
December.
2013    “Migrant workers and Asian Multinationals in Europe: the case of
Foxconn”, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 30 October.
2013    “Migrant workers in the Italian economic crisis. Moroccan and Romanian
unemployed in Italy” (with F. A. Vianello) , Universidad Complutense,
Madrid, 31 October.
2013    “'The assembly line of life': the shrinking of the production and
reproduction spheres in the case of Foxconn factories in the Czech
Republic” (with R. Andrijasevic), Work, Employment and Society Conference,
University of Warwick (3-5 September).
2013    “Workers' Cooperatives in Italy between solidarity and autocratic
centralism” (with M. Semenzin), International Forum: Rethinking economy:
Social/Solidarity economy in China and the World, China Social Work Research
Center, HK Polytechnic U.-Peking U., Peking University Campus, Beijing, China
(April 27-28).
2013    “Express People: Foxconn factories in Czech Republic and the changing
role of Temporary Work Agencies” (with R. Andrjiasevic), XXXI ILPC
Conference (March 18-20), New Brunswick, NJ.
2013    “Migrant Farmworkers in Southern Italy: Ghettoes, caporalato and
Collective Action” (with M. Perrotta), Goldsmith University (London),
January, 28.
2012    “Moldovan workers in the European construction sector: Migrant labour
in Italy and Russia (with C. Morrison and O. Cretu), Conference: Mobility as the
new paradigmatic perspective in the social sciences?, Institute for Migration
and Ethnic Studies (IMES), University of Amsterdam, 28-29 August.
2012    “Italian Firms in Guangdong between Delocalisation of Production and
Delocalisation for the Chinese Market” (with D. Bubbico), Conference: The
Role of Large Emerging Countries in the World Economy: Threats and
Opportunities for European Firms?, Economia e politica industrial (Parma
18-19 June).
2012    “Mobility and labour between Italy and Russia. The case of Ukrainians and
Moldovans” (with C. Morrison), Ethnography Conference, 7-9 June, University
of Bergamo.
2012    “Ethnographies of migrant labour”, 24 May, University of Salerno.
2012    “Workhouses between marginality and forced labour”, Conference:
Security measures and the Constitution, 11-12 May 2012, L’Aquila.
2012    “International Migration and Labour Turnover: the construction sector
in the EU and the CIS” (with C. Morrison and O. Cretu), XIII International
Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Moscow, 3-5 April.
2012    “Migration and economic recession: production of poor workers and
forms of struggle”,  Seminar: Precarity and immigration, University of
Urbino, 1-2 April.
2012    “Post-Socialist Transformation ‘Italian style’: social relations
in the unregulated SME sector in South East Europe.” (with C. Morrison), XXX
ILPC Conference, Stockholm (Sweden), 27-29 March.
2012    “From flight to strike: African agricultural labourers in Southern
Italy” (with D. Perrotta), Annual conference of the Department of social
sciences, University of Torino, Otherness. Representations, policies,
practices of resistance (19-20 January)
2011    “Towards a Critique of Nomadism: Mobility, Migration and Labor
Turnover in Russia” (with C. Morrison), Historical materialism conference:
Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle, London, (10-13 November).
2011    “Migrants facing the economic crisis. Romanian unemployed in Italy”,
Seminar: The impact of economic crisis on Romanian labor migration,
Bucharest, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (4 October).
2011    “Labour migration between the former Soviet Union and EU: Labour
market in competition?” (with C. Morrison), Conference: Migrant labour:
Contested integration, prospects for citizenship, Ljubljana (15–16
September).
2011    “Migrants Facing the Economic Crisis. Moroccan and Romanian Unemployed
in Italy” (with F. A. Vianello), European Sociological Association
Conference, Geneva (9 September).
2011    “International Migration and Labour Turnover. The case of the
Construction Sector in Russia and European Union”, Pekin University (Cina)
(19 May).
2011    “Trade Unions and Labor Rights in Italy”, Guangzhou University
(Cina) (17 May).
2011    “Labour Migration in the Former Soviet Union: State Regulation,
Employers' Practices and Workers' Resistance” (with C. Morrison), XXIX ILPC
Conference, Leeds (Uk) 5-7 April.
2011    “Migration and labour in Italian sociology” Faculty of Political
Science, University of Bologna, 16 March.
2010    “Ethnography of Labor Migrants”, Lomonosov Moscow State University
(Russia) 20 September.
2010    “Globalisation on one continent. The case of migrant labour
in the European Union”, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of
Salerno, 2 November.
2010    “The forms of the whirlpool: from slave labour to migrant labour”,
University of Bergamo, 28 May.
2010    “Labor Migrations: Contested Terrains” Seminar: Reconceptualizing
Migration. Movements and Struggles, Facing the Global Crisis, University of
Bologna, 20-21 May.
2009    “Chains of international production and new processes of
proletarianisation”, Seminar: The global economic crisis: causes,
structure, political perspectives, Faculty of Political Science, University
of Urbino, 3-4 November.
2009    “Xenophobia or Democratic Differentiation? A New Path of Separation
and Discipline for Migrant Workers in Italy” Conference: Contemporary
Centrifugal Regionalism: Comparing Flanders and Northern Italy organised by
The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts Academy House,
Bruxelles (19-20 June).
2008    “When Political Subjectivity Takes Roots. The Case of Porto Marghera
(Venice, Italy)” Conference: 1968 — A view of the protest movements 40
years after, from a global perspective organised by the International
Conference of Labour and Social History, Linz (Austria) (11-14 September).
2008    “Mobility of labour power, mobility of capital and the workers’
movement. Some notes starting from the experiences of Eastern Europe”,
Conference: Politics and the world market: 150 years after the Grundrisse, Faculty of
Political Science, Padua (11-12 January).
2007    “Women’s participation in labour between equal opportunities and
inequalities” Conference: Towards a future of Equal Opportunities, Bassano del
Grappa (Vi), 24 November.
2007    “Cartographies of struggles in Marghera and Veneto in the years
’60-’70”, Conference: Settanta. Gli anni sospesi, Mestre-Venezia (6
October).
2007    “Oral sources and sociological research”, Training course: Oral
sources. Methods, techniques, experiences, Istituto storico Parri Bologna, 5
May.
2006    “Flows of labour and flows of goods in a European area. Forms and
limits of transnational mobility”, Conference: Sociology and
Globalisation organised by Ais, Roma, (26 September).
2006    “Dynamics of the world of labour”, paper presented at Collegio
Universitario Don Nicola Mazza – Padua, 16 May.
2006    “Life stories in the kaleidoscope of labour”, Training course
for field researchers organised by the Cultural Association
“Società di Mutuo Soccorso Ernesto de Martino” – Venezia, 13 May.
2005    “Offshore Outsourcing and Migrations: the South-Eastern and Central
Eastern European Case”, Seminar: The Management of Humanitarian Aids and
of Transnational Movements of Persons in the Euro-Mediterranean area and
Southeast Asia organised by ASEF, Lampedusa(28-30 August).
2005    “Migrant capital and local society. The case of Romania”,
Faculty of Arts, University of Padua, 28 May.
2005    “Labour markets and the legal status of migrants”, Faculty
of Law, University of Firenze, 4 May.
2005    “The Change in the Relations Between the Actors of  EU Countries and
the Euro-Mediterranean Societies”, Faculty of Education,
University of Genova, 8 April.
2004    “Migration and productive and humanitarian investment”, Padua, Civitas,
30 April.
2004    “Migration models in the new European space”, Faculty of Education,
University of Lecce, 24 September.
2003    “Italian Teachers: From Denied Careers to New Flexibility”, Conference
: Les recompositions du métier enseignant dans un contexte de mutations des
systèmes éducatifs en Europe, University of Porto (Portogallo), 3-4 April
2003.
2003    “Spaces of Qualitative Research: Research Subjects and Objects in a
European Space” Seminar: Qualitative Methods workshop, Family and Welfare
Cluster, European Commission, Bruxelles, 30-31 January.
2002    “Transformations of the international labour market: the case
of Veneto clothing”, Seminar: The mosaic of global labour is not
mad, Palermo 22-23 November 2002.
2011    “Lights and shadows on the application of law 626/94 in Treviso
companies”, Conference: Danger is not my trade, Treviso, 16
February.
2001    “Labour markets of immigrants”, Upad, Bolzano.
2000    “Figures of labour between migration and delocalisation”, Faculty of
Education, University of Genova.
1999    “Eastern Europe: how the transnational division of
labour is changing” University of Fisciano (Salerno).
1998    “History of a difficult orality”, Second meeting of Oral
History: Giochi di memoria, Department of Historical Studies, University
of Venezia (15 December).
1998     “Productive spatialities and connective tensions”, seminar:
Automation within industrial plants and new models of
production: a technical approach framed within a critical systematic
vision, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna.
1997    “Economic and social transformations in an area undergoing rapid
integration”, Conference: Social systems in the Alpe Adria community.
Rights of participation and information in processes of globalisation,
Vicenza.

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