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Valeria Piro
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Ricercatrice a tempo det. art. 24 c.3 lett. A L. 240/2010
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VIA M. CESAROTTI, 10/12 - PADOVA
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Valeria Piro obtained her PhD in Sociology in 2015 at the University of Milan. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow at the University of Bologna (2016-2018), Padova (2018-2021) and Milan (2021-2022). Moreover, she was a visiting scholar at the C.R.I.M.T. T (Centre de Recherche Interuniversitaire sur la Mondialisation et le Travail - Montréal), the C.E.R.I.C. (Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change - Leeds) and the l’A.I.A.S.-H.S.I. (Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies - Hugo Sinzheimer Institute - Amsterdam).
She is currently Assistant Professor (RTD-a in SPS/09) at the Dept. of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology at the University of Padova, where she teaches Labour Sociology. Moreover, she is a member of the group S.L.A.N.G. research group (Slanting Gaze on Social Control, Labour, Racism and Migration). Moreover, she is the PI of the PRIN PNRR project InMigrHealth - Investigating Migrants' Occupational Health (CP: P20225JPYN).
Since June 2022, she obtained the National Scientific title for the position of Associate Professor for scientific sector 14/D1 - Sociology of economic, labour, environmental and territorial processes (valid from 1/06/2022 to 01/06/2032).
Her research interests articulate in three main directions. The first research axis, within the Labour Processes Theory, investigates workforce segmentation according to race, nationality, migration status, age, and gender. The second focus of interest concerns workers’ agency, by investigating everyday conflicts and informal bargaining practices within workplaces, as well as workers’ mobility power. The third area of interest focuses on processes of unionisation, on trade unions’ strategies in enlarging their membership and innovating their practices, and on emerging forms of labour organising (i.e., grassroots organisations).
Her research has privileged qualitative and ethnographic methodologies, and included several industries, especially migrant-rich sectors (agriculture, meat processing, nursing houses, manufacturing, and services); moreover, she extensively investigated subcontracted and informal labour.
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Publications
Piro V (2021) Migrant Farmworkers in 'Plastic Factories’. Investigating Work-Life Struggles, London, Palgrave
Dorigatti L, Iannuzzi FE, Piro V, Sacchetto D (2024) Job quality in worker cooperatives: Beyond degeneration and intrinsic rewards, British Journal of Industrial Relations 62(3): 591-613 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12798
Piro V, Murgia A (2024) Dissenting and innovating: Freelancers’ emerging forms of organising in the Netherlands, Current Sociology 0(0) https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921231223176
Piro V (2024) From homework to remote work. Reflecting on the porosity of spaces, times and social relationships at home and in workplaces, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia 1: 91-100, doi: 10.1423/112993
Piro V (2023) Collective mobility power: Grassroots unionism in the Italian meat-processing sector, Sociologia del Lavoro 167(3): 141-162
Piro V, Murgia A, Azaïs C. (2023) Hybrid areas of labour. Challenging traditional dichotomies to represent work, workers, and working trajectories, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia 64(2): 165-82
Romens AI, Piro V, Iannuzzi FE (2022) The variable geometry of bargaining: Implementing unions' strategies on remote work in Italy, Studi Organizzativi 1: 129-53
Piro V, Sacchetto D (2021) Subcontracted racial capitalism: the interrelationship of race and production in meat processing plants, Work in the Global Economy 1 (1-2): 33-53
Dal Zotto E, Lo Cascio M, Piro V (2021) The emergency management of migration and agricultural workforce during the pandemic: the contradictory outcomes of the 2020 amnesty law, in F Della Puppa, G Sanò, a cura di, Stuck and Exploited. Venezia, Cà Foscari Edizioni: 321-42.
Brovia C, Piro V (2021) Ghettos, camps and dormitories. Migrant workers' living conditions in enclaves of industrial agriculture in Italy, in JF Rye, K. O'Reilly, eds. International Labour Migration to Europe's Rural Regions, London, Routledge: 52-69
Piro V, Sacchetto D (2020) Segmentazioni del lavoro e strategie sindacali nell’industria della carne, Stato e Mercato 120: 515-41
Bottalico A, Piro V (2020) L'etnografia del lavoro e il lavoro dell'etnografia, Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa 1: 5-29
Bergamaschi M, Piro V (2018) Processi di territorializzazione e flussi migratori. Pensare le migrazioni in prospettiva territoriale, Sociologia Urbana e Rurale 117: 7-18
Lo Cascio M, Piro V (2018) Ghetti e campi. La produzione istituzionale di marginalità abitativa nelle campagne siciliane, Sociologia Urbana e Rurale 117: 77-97
Piro V., Sanò G. (2018) Fiducia, onestà, incertezza. Convenzioni e relazioni sociali nel lavoro quotidiano degli intermediari nel mercato ortofrutticolo di Vittoria, in «Meridiana. Rivista di Storia e Scienze Sociali», 93, pp. 213-230.
Piro V., Sanò G. (2017) Abitare (ne)i luoghi di lavoro. Il caso dei braccianti rumeni nelle serre della provincia di Ragusa, in «Sociologia del Lavoro», 146, pp. 40-55.
Piro V., Sanò G. (2016) Entering the ‘plastic factories’. Conflicts and competition in Sicilian greenhouses and packinghouses, in A. Corrado, D. Perrotta, C. De Castro, eds., Migration and Agriculture. Mobility and Change in the Mediterranean Area, Routledge, pp. 293-307.
Piro V. (2015) What is deemed to be ‘fake’? The case of ‘fake agricultural workers’ in South Eastern Sicily, in «Mondi Migranti», 1, pp. 65-83.
Piro V. (2014) Che cos’è la giusta paga? Negoziazioni sul prezzo del lavoro in una serra siciliana, in «Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa», 2, pp. 219-244.
Research Area
Her research interests articulate in three main directions. The first research axis, within the Labour Processes Theory, investigates workforce segmentation according to race, nationality, migration status, age, and gender. The second focus of interest concerns workers’ agency, by investigating everyday conflicts and informal bargaining practices within workplaces, as well as workers’ mobility power. The third area of interest focuses on processes of unionisation, on trade unions’ strategies in enlarging their membership and innovating their practices, and on emerging forms of labour organising (i.e., grassroots organisations, ‘indie’ unionism).
Her research has privileged qualitative and ethnographic methodologies, and included several industries, especially migrant-rich sectors (agriculture, meat processing, manufacturing, and services); moreover, she extensively investigated subcontracted and informal labour.
Thesis proposals
The professor is happy to supervise empirical research thesis, adopting a qualitive methodology, and focusing on labour, migrations, industrial relations
