Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 2021

Session

2.2

16 Sept 2021, 16:00

Altana (Palazzo Strozzi)

Conveners

2.2: Gig and autonomous work

• Gemma Scalise (University of Milan Bicocca)

47. The unsustainable precarity of the pursuit for freedom: a critical overview of the Spanish “sí soy autónomo” movement

Tiago Vieira (European University Institute)

16/09/2021, 16:00

Track 2

Throughout 2020, the Spanish Government initiated the process of regulating all activities related to platform work with the purpose of 'chasing the fraud of bogus self-employment'. Somewhat surprisingly, this initiative was met by a substantial wave of protest from the workers who the government proclaimed to be attempting to protect. In this light, the present research explores the arguments...

23. Renewing workers’ collective action theories in the gig and precarious world of work

Maurizio Atzeni (CEIL/CONICET), Dr Lorenzo Cini (Scuola Normale Superiore)

16/09/2021, 16:30

Track 2

The field of industrial relations (IR) and social movement studies (SM) have rarely entered into a dialogue. Kelly’s mobilization theory has been one of the few successful attempts to integrate the two fields of study by providing a framework for the analysis of micro processes of mobilizations. In the light of the new conflicts that are emerging in the context of the gig and precarious...

13. The long haul of the self-employed workers unionisation. European trends 2002-2018 in the service sector and the case of a good Italian organisational innovation

Michele Santurro (Sapienza University of Rome)

16/09/2021, 17:00

Track 2

The knotty problem of self-employment representation is one of the most current challenges for industrial relations and a litmus test of the inclusive capacity of Western democratic capitalisms towards the disruptive labour market transformations.
European trade unions have been dealing with the increase in self-employment in both skilled and unskilled sectors. Unions have chosen different...