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DEVI SACCHETTO

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Structure

Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata - FISPPA

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VIA M. CESAROTTI, 10/12 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498274306

E-mail

devi.sacchetto@unipd.it

Professor of Sociology of work at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology.
He graduated in Political Sciences at the University of Padua, and gained his Ph.D. in "Methodology of Research in Human Sciences" at the Department of Anthropological Sciences (DISA) of the University of Genoa.
He is currently teaching Sociology of Work (Bachelor's Degree) and Sociology of labour and Migration processes.
He is member of Executive Board of the PhD in Social Sciences, University of Padua.

He has been responsible and participated in national and international research on relocalization of production, on the migrant workers in agriculture and in the domestic sector. He studied also the transformations in the maritime sector, on the intergenerational transmission of social inequalities and on the forms of social cohesion. In particular, he is the scientific director of the following research projects:
"Shipping Off Labour: Changing Staffing Strategies in Globalized Workplaces", The Research Council of Norway (2020-24).
“Labour in transition: job-skills development and firm innovation competencies” (Prin 2023-25)
Responsabile scientifico progetto Release (Rete Legale Anti Sfruttamento), Fondo Asilo, Migrazione e Integrazione (FAMI) (2023).



He participated at national and international conferences. Some of the most recent papers he presented are:
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 e I. Wagner), 42 ILPC, University of Gottingen (3-5 April).
2023 “Outsourcing and the multiplication of factory regimes in the Italian shipbuilding industry. The case of Fincantieri” (con F. E. Iannuzzi, N. Quondamatteo), ISA Conference, Melbourne (25 giugno-1 luglio).
2023 “The nexus between mobility and mobilization. ‘Indie’ unionism in the Italian meat processing sectors” (con V. Piro), 41st ILPC, University of Strathclyde (12-14 Aprile).
2023 “Job quality in worker cooperatives: Beyond degeneration and intrinsic rewards” (con L. Dorigatti, F. E. Iannuzzi, V. Piro), 41st ILPC, University of Strathclyde (12-14 Aprile).
2023 “Fragmented labour regimes in the Italian Fincanteri shipyards” (con 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 marzo).
2023 “L’istituzionalizzazione del lavoro povero nelle cooperative: uno studio su tre settori” (con L. Dorigatti, F. E. Iannuzzi, V. Piro, Sisec, Brescia (8-11 febbraio)
2022 “Lo sfruttamento lavorativo”, Scuola Estiva di Sociologia delle Migrazioni, Genova (5 luglio).
2022 “Migration and Labour”, Labour Transfer Summer School, Buggerru (15-18 giugno).
2022 “Continuity and Change in Workplace Regimes in the Italian Shipbuilding Industry” Con F. E. Iannuzzi, G. Meardi, N. Quandamatteo, A.A. Rabby, Workshop ShipGlobal, Oslo (23-24 maggio).

Notices

Office hours

  • Wednesday from 10:30 to 12:30
    at Studio docente - Via M. Cesarotti, 12
    Il ricevimento di mercoledì 22 gennaio 2025 è anticipato alle ore 9-11. In caso di necessità potete inviare un'email al docente. Per eventuali informazioni si prega di consultare il sito di Ateneo ed eventualmente di inviare una email al docente. Si avvisano gli studenti che è inutile inviare messaggi di posta elettronica per: a) chiedere informazioni già disponibili sul sito (es. date e orari delle lezioni, degli esami e del ricevimento, programmi d'esame); 2) chiedere argomenti di prove finali (basta presentarsi a ricevimento); 3) chiedere eccezioni o trattamenti particolari (ad esempio esami fuori appello, programmi personalizzati); 4) chiedere informazioni in merito alla disponibilità del docente nel seguirli nella scrittura della tesi di laurea. Il docente si riserva di non rispondere alle mail che chiedono tali informazioni.

Teachings

Publications

2024 The Politics of Migrant Labour. Exit, Voice and Social Reproduction (con G. Alberti), Bristol University Press, Bristol
2024 “Job quality in worker cooperatives: Beyond degeneration and intrinsic rewards” (con 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” (con F. Bagnardi, F. A. Vianello), Work, Employment and Society, 38(6), 1703-1724.
2022 “Outsourcing and workers’ resistance practices in Venice’s hotel industry: The role of migrants employed by cooperatives” (con F.E. Iannuzzi), Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 43(2): 877–897.
2022 “Confini produttivi e confini lavorativi. La multidimensionalità dell’outsourcing nel capitalismo contemporaneo” (con F. E. Iannuzzi), Sociologia del lavoro, Vol. 164: 140-161.
2021 “The work-technology nexus and working-class environmentalism: Workerism versus capitalist noxiousness in Italy’s Long 1968” (con L. Feltrin), Theory and Society, 50(5), 815-835.
2021(a cura di) Il lavoro da remoto. Aspetti giuridici e sociologici, Giappichelli, Torino (con M. Peruzzi)
2021 “Subcontracted racial capitalism: the interrelationship of race and production in meat processing plants” (con 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” (con M. Morad, F. Della Puppa), British Journal of Sociology, vol. 72 (5), 1311-1324.
2020 “Migration, Ethnicity and Solidarity: ‘Multinational Workers’ in the Former Soviet Union” (con C. Morrison, R. Croucher), British Journal of Industrial Relations, Doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12518
2020 “The Mobility of Workers living at work in Europe” (con Antonella Ceccagno), Current Sociology, Vol. 68 (3), pp. 299-315.
2019 “Assemblaggi di frontiera. Le operaie della Foxconn a Ciudad Juárez, Messico”, (con M. E. Cecchi), Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa, n. 1, pp. 3-28.
2019 “Transgressing North–South Divide: Foxconn Production Regimes in China and the Czech Republic” (con Pun Ngai, Andrijasevic R.), Critical Sociology, pp. 1-16, DOI: 10.1177/0896920518823881.
2018 “Restructuring Labour Relations and Employment in the European Logistics Sector: Unions’ responses to a Segmented Workforce” (con C. Benvegnù, B. Haidinger), in Doellgast V., Lillie N., Pulignano V. (a cura), Reconstructing Solidarity, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 83-103.
2017 “Il just-in-time della vita. Reti di produzione globale e compressione spazio-temporale alla Foxconn” (con R. Andrijasevic), Stato e mercato, vol. 3, p. 383-420.
2017 “Spazio e tempo nei processi produttivi e riproduttivi” (con G. Alberti, F. A. Vianello), Sociologia del lavoro, vol. 146, pp. 7-24.
2017 I cieli e i girono del lusso. Processi lavorativi e di valorizzazione nelle reti della moda (con D. Bubbico, V. Redini), Guerini, Milano.
2017 “Disappearing Workers’: Foxconn in Europe and the changing role of Temporary Work Agencies” (con R. Andrijasevic), Work, Employment and Society, 31 (1), pp. 54-70.
2017 (a cura di) Le reti del valore. Migrazioni, produzione e governo della crisi, Derive & Approdi, Roma (con S. Chignola)

Research Area

The main research lines are:
- labour markets in Europe;
- mobility of investments and mobility of the labour;
- trade unions and migrant workers;
- space and time in production and reproduction processes;
- logistics and digital platform.

He is currently working on a comparative research on a large multinational company (Foxconn) with Rutvica Andrijasevic of Bristol University; a research project financed by EC on posting workers in Europe; a research project on trade unions and migrant workers in the slaughterhouse labour processes; and a research porject on shipbuinding in Europe.
Other information are available in the research group website: http://www.slang-unipd.it/

Thesis proposals

Dissertations are mainly empirical based after a preliminary discussion with the Professor.

Some topics of recent dissertations:
Working in the cooperatives
Emotional and care work
Working conditions in Italian Enterprises in Romania
Lean production in a Venetian firm
Workers in the gig economy
Form of organisation of labour through subcontract
Migrant labour in the meat processing
Company welfare in Luxottica
Working conditions in the logistic sector

The professor approves the application for the discussion of the dissertation only if he has received at least one chapter of the thesis one month before the application deadline. Furthermore, students must send to the professor the whole dissertation, already corrected once, at least fifteen days before the final submission deadline. Those who do not deliver the dissertation according to this timeline will have to graduate in the next session.

It is suggested to start collecting the references for your dissertation through research on the following sites:
University library system;
Rivisteweb;
Google Scholar;
Journal of Sociology of Work, Franco Angeli (site accessible through the University library system).