The workshop (HERE more info) aims at exploring the manifold ways in which work is experienced and discussed by workers, particularly looking at relation between identity and work in post-industrial societies. It questions the re-emergence of forms of detachment, resignation, and refusal of work, in a context characterized by novel and hybrid forms of work and employment, seeking to answer the question: “is work not working anymore?”.
Organizing committee: Costanza Guazzo, Gianmarco Peterlongo, Alessandro Gandini (University ofMilan)
Keynote speakers: Francesca Coin (SUPSI), David Frayne (University of Manchester Salford) Date and place: University of Milan, 5th March 2024
The organizers seek original theoretical and/or empirical, quantitative and/or qualitative contributions, in English, that will deepen the understanding of the trajectories of the metamorphosis of labour in contemporary societies, focusing especially – but not exclusively – on post-industrial Western societies. The aim of this special issue is to advance the knowledge on any of the following, or related, topics:
– Refusal of work, voluntary resignations, quiet quitting, misbehaviour on the workplace.
– Meaningfulness of waged and unwaged work in post-industrial societies.
– On- and off -line forms of workers’ collective voice.
– Work-life balance, workers’ health & the psychological impacts of work.
– New forms of work.
Abstracts (300 words max) should be sent to the workshop organizers by 2 February 2024
via THIS FORM.