INVITATION TO THE CYCLE SEMINAR:
Beyond Disciplinary Barriers. ISMed as a research laboratory.

Home-based work in a socio-historical perspective

January 19, 2024

CNR-ISMed
Humanities Pole (VI floor)
Via Cardinale Guglielmo Sanfelice, 8
80134 Naples

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Home-based work has been the subject of limited interest by the scientific community. Often considered marginal within capitalist development or limitedly analyzed in relation to the contingencies of the business cycle, it has instead proved resilient to the succession of three industrial revolutions. In the present day, on a global scale, home-based work endures, adapting to the needs of production and technological change, employing mainly female labor. In its unfolding it re-proposes the structural issues affecting the home-employed workforce, converging on the timing and modes of work performance and psycho-physical conditions. The examination of the Italian case is particularly interesting, because of the spread that this form of production has experienced in the twentieth century and the connections it has with patriarchal culture, the structure of the manufacturing system and the processes of division of labor on a global scale. The analysis is functional in thematizing the working conditions of those who today by choice or necessity carry out paid work within their homes in occupations with intellectual content.

THE SPEAKER. Economic, labor and organizational sociologist. PhD in Labor Sciences at the University of Milan (2010). Collaborates with labor organizations in Italy and with international organizations (ILO) on labor issues with a special focus on the analysis of working conditions from an intersectional perspective. She conducts research in the areas of working conditions in labor-intensive sectors, labor market composition, work harmfulness and gender discrimination.

SPEAKER

Tania Toffanin
CNR-ISMed

INTRODUCES AND MODERATES

Michele Nani
CNR-ISMed

FINAL DEBATE

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Michele Colucci, Gabriella Corona, Antonio De Lorenzo, Valentina Noviello

CNR-ISMed

INFO AND CONTACTS
valentina.noviello@ismed.cnr.it
www.ismed.cnr.it

HOW TO JOIN:

The seminar is open to the public, subject to availability.
It is accessible for remote participation on the Teams platform at https://tinyurl.com/2jrfdb8e

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