Work, Platforms and Industrial Change in Italy

⇒  Panel presentations:

• Ecological transition and industrial change: some preliminary evidence from Italy, by Lidia Greco, Professor of Economics and Labour Sociology at the University of Bari Aldo Moro.
• Industrial structure, productivity and wages in Italy over the last decades, by Claudio Cozza, Associate Professor in Economic Policy at the University of Naples 'Parthenope', and Paolo Angelone, PhD student in Economics at the University of Naples 'Parthenope'.
• Rights against the Machines! Platform capitalism, digital labor and the struggle of food delivery workers in Italy, by Marco Marrone, Assistant Professor at the University of Salento.
• The labour impact of digital platforms, by Valeria Cirillo, Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro.

⇒  Panelist Bios:

Lidia Greco is professor of economic and labour sociology at the University of Bari. Her research activity is mainly concerned with territorial (regional/urban) and industrial change also in an international perspective. Through this lens she has developed several research themes: people, firms and places; labor market and policies; institutions and governance.

Claudio Cozza is associate professor in economic policy at the University of Naples “Parthenope”; his research interests include the internationalization of production and innovation, and the theory of monopoly capitalism.

Paolo Angelone is PhD student in economics at the University of Naples “Parthenope”; his studies are focused on wage dynamics in Italy, on the relationship between wages and productivity, and on the working poor.

Marco Marrone is Assistant Professor at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bologna (2018) and an expertise background in Industrial sociology and sociology of labor. His research activity has regarded topics such as platform capitalism, gig economy, digital labor and informal unionism. Among his latest publications: Marrone & Quondamatteo (2023) “Struggle for Recognition, a Lever to Establish Industrial Relations from below: Reinterpreting Couriers’ Mobilisations in Food Delivery Sector in Italy”. Partecipazione e Conflitto 16 (2): 252–267; Chicchi, F., & Marrone, M. (2024). Digital labour, informal unionism and the rise of a new workers’ subjectivity. In Capitalism in the Platform Age: Emerging Assemblages of Labour and Welfare in Urban Spaces (pp. 115-130). Cham: Springer International Publishing; Marrone, M., & Peterlongo, G. (2020). Where platforms meet infrastructures: digital platforms, urban resistance and the ambivalence of the city in the Italian case of Bologna. Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, 14(1), 119–135.

Valeria Cirillo is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Department of Political Sciences), external affiliate of the Institute of Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, and member of MinervaLab – Laboratory on Diversity and Gender Inequality – based at Sapienza University of Rome. She is also member of the board of the PhD School in Economics at Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2023 she is associate editor of the Italian Economic Journal.

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