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Mapping policy drivers of territorial inequality in Italy
No full textThe text maps and analyses the policy drivers of territorial inequality in Ital
Key policies and strategies aimed at development of areas regarded as “left-behind”: Italy
No full textThe report takes in exam the key policies and strategies aimed at
development of areas regarded as “left-behind” in Ital
Introduction: Digital Platform Labour and (New) Inequalities
No full textThis issue of Inequalities is dedicated to the impact and consequences of digital platform labor on inequalities and the system of inequalities. Platform capitalism is the result of long-term socio-economic
transformations in the wake of the transition to a regime of flexible accumulation. Developments and innovations in the electronics
industry, in ICTs, and in digital technologies have played a significant role in these transformations. With the advent of the second
machine age and the digitalization of just about everything (Brynjolfsson, McAfee 2015), the pervasiveness of digital technologies
in the various spheres and activities of social life has had multiple
effects at the economic, social, cultural, and ecological levels. But the
digital sphere is not neutral: its consequences on the entirety of social
life and on the world of work do not derive directly from new technologies, but from the capitalist conception and application of them.
Contrary to a perspective founded in “technological neutrality”, the
digitalization of labor is not simply a technical matter in which technical means dominate over capital. In digitally driven labor transformation processes, the technological element appears on the surface
to prevail over the social relations that actually subsume it
Mapping of discourses on territorial inequality and ‘left behind places’ in Italy
No full textThe report analyses the academic debate and the political discourses on territorial inequality and the concept of "left behind places" in the Italian context
Unpacking Left-Behindness: A Comparative Study on Territorial Inequalities in Europe
Full text linkThis working paper is an output produced by the EXIT project – Exploring sustainable strategies to
counteract territorial inequalities from an intersectional approach – (2022-2025)
La ciudad híbrida en la entrega de alimentos digitalizada. La experiencia urbana de los ‘walker’ en la Venecia postcolonial
No full textIn recent decades, there has been a wide and progressive expan- sion of digital labor and a rapid and significant growth of “on-de- mand work via apps”, organized through digital platforms and applications accessible from one’s smartphone or other porta- ble technological devices. This includes Uber drivers, Amazon delivery drivers, and food delivery riders for services such as Uber Eats, Glovo, or JustEat. With this contribution, we aim to present the perspective of a worker engaged in food delivery through digital apps in the City of Venice, a city with a colonial past and a present reshaped for the use and consumption of mass tourism
The natural and cultural heritage of the Serra de Estrela, between UNESCO geopark and lithium mining
No full textWith a review of the academic and journalistic literature, this chapter aims to further explore the shift toward a sustainable tourism in the context of UNESCO Natural Parks and Geoparks. Furthermore, the authors point out the persistence of a contradiction, that is, the presence of mining activities in the surrounding of above-mentioned UNESCO areas. After briefly reconstructing the socio-economic history of the mountain area of Serra da Estrela, located in the region of Beira Interior, in Central Portugal, the authors focus on the tension between two aspects: 1) the Post-Fordist model, concerning the transition to tourism development related to creation of UNESCO Natural Park and Geopark and 2) the reinforcement of lithium mining production and discovery of new deposits as an energetic and economic strategy for Portugal. In particular, the latter issue has given rise to various groups and movements of protest on a local basis. The claims of these groups suggest a radical paradigm shift in the development plans and in the conception of heritage in an ecological sense
Sociologia dei disastri e transizione ecologica: lapproccio della preparedness
No full textPiù che l’esito finale e definitivo di una specifica indagine, questo volume costituisce un vero e proprio cantiere di ricerca aperto. Un laboratorio, dunque, nel quale differenti percorsi di ricerca si incrociano su un terreno comune, trasversale ai diversi campi di approfondimento: le infrastrutture. Esse svolgono un ruolo determinante nelle forme di vita del capitalismo contemporaneo: legano insieme, connettono, vincolano e consentono l’organizzazione coordinata del sociale. Le infrastrutture possiedono specifiche caratteristiche materiali, tecniche, organizzative, essendo quei sistemi socio-tecnici attraverso cui è possibile realizzare e distribuire enormi flussi di merci, di persone, di dati, di immagini e così via. Al tempo stesso, proprio nel continuo e quotidiano ricorso a quei dispositivi, oggi caratterizzati da una estensione quantitativa e una sincronizzazione sistemica inedite, le nostre forme di vita sono a loro volta infrastrutturate dalle logiche e dai codici con cui le infrastrutture funzionano. In questo senso, grazie alle infrastrutture facciamo molte cose, ma a loro volta esse fanno qualcosa delle nostre forme di vita.
Questo testo consente pertanto l’accesso ad un cantiere di lavoro in cui, senza pretese esaustive né tanto meno di chiusura sistemica, differenti percorsi di ricerca danno forma ad una prospettiva, un orizzonte esplorativo nel quale la messa a fuoco delle infrastrutture – o per meglio dire, dell’infrastrutturare – assume la valenza di un metodo di indagine, uno strumento attraverso il quale porre attenzione ai processi materiali e immateriali con cui il sociale prende forma
Lavoratori immigrati e lavoro digitale di piattaforma. Percorsi teorici, lavorativi e urbani
No full textL’articolo analizza il rapporto tra lavoro digitale di piattaforma e lavoro degli immigrati,
attraverso la revisione critica degli studi esistenti e sulla base di una ricerca empirica.
L’ipotesi principale, che affronta una tematica poco studiata in Italia, è che per gli immigrati – in particolare per gli immigrati neoarrivati, i richiedenti asilo – i settori a bassa qualifica
della gig economy, in particolare le consegne a domicilio, rappresentino dei nuovi ambiti di
primo inserimento lavorativo, dei settori di transito. Dopo aver delineato le caratteristiche
della gig economy e del lavoro digitale di piattaforma, l’articolo prima mette a fuoco il migrant digital labour esaminando i nessi tra lavoro di piattaforma e lavoro degli immigrati,
poi si focalizza sulla situazione italiana a partire da una ricerca sul campo condotta nel
2022 sulle consegne a domicilio a Venezia. La ricerca conferma quanto rilevato dalla letteratura internazionale sulla gig economy riguardo l’intermediazione algoritmica, il lavoro a
cottimo, l’autonomia formale dei lavoratori; al contempo essa evidenzia la “flessibilità-
vincolante” e il pendolarismo tra la città storica di Venezia e la terraferma che caratterizzano questi lavoratori di piattaforma.The article analyses the relationship between Digital Platform Labor (DPL) and migrant
workers, through a critical review of literature and empirical research. Addressing a relatively
understudied topic in Italy, the main hypothesis is that for immigrants in Italy – specifically
for newly arrived migrants, asylum seekers – low-skill sectors of the gig economy, particularly
food delivery services, are new areas of labour insertion, transitional pathways to other economic sectors. After outlining the features of the gig economy and digital platform labor, the
article examines the migrant digital labour analysing the links between platform work and migrant workers, then it focuses on the Italian context starting from empirical research conducted in 2022 on food delivery services in Venice. The research corroborates the international
literature on gig economy relative to algorithmic mediation, piecework, and formal worker
autonomy, while it highlights the “binding flexibility” and commuting between the historical
city of Venice and the mainland that these platform workers experience
The time-space-energy nexus in the gig economy: the work and everyday lives of migrant food delivery ‘walkers’ in Venice
No full textThe intersection of migrant labour and the gig economy is a field of growing interest. Although there is no comprehensive public data on the topic, current studies show that platform labour in urban gig economies is often carried out by migrants. While uberised work has been quite extensively analysed, the dimensions of everyday life and time are still little studied. This paper aims to fill this gap, looking at the convergence of migrant labour, the gig economy, everyday life, and time. The authors present a time- space-energy nexus to illustrate the constant assembling of working and non-working times by workers and the potential tensions arising from the algorithmic managerial model of work. Specific attention is given to how migrant couriers organise the times and spaces of their everyday lives within platform-mediated food delivery in Venice. To explore this topic, a qualitative- ethnographic investigation was carried out in the historic centre of Venice from January to June 2022. This article highlights the features and tendencies of the food delivery sector in Venice, in order to show how the particular forms that migrant worker/ runners’ living and working conditions take contradict the supposed flexibility proposed by digital platforms
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