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Stefano Gallo deals with the social history of contemporary Italy, with experience in researching archival sources and documents ranging from the end of the 19th century to the 1980s. He has more than 100 research products to his credit, including books, articles, essays and reviews, and 50 participations in and organization of scientific conferences and seminars.

His main fields of research are the history of migration and the history of work. He teaches “History of migration in the contemporary age” at the Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge of the University of Pisa (specialist degree course in Contemporary History). His latest books are entitled “History of work in contemporary Italy” (il Mulino 2023, with Fabrizio Loreto) and “Primo Maggio” (il Mulino 2025).

He helped found the Italian Society of the History of Work, of which he was the first coordinating secretary until 2015 (storialavoro.it). Since 2021 he has been scientific director of the Franco Serantini Library – Historical Institute of the Resistance of the province of Pisa. He is also a member of the doctoral board of the Research Doctorate in Social and Political Change, an international and interdisciplinary Doctorate of excellence of the Universities of Turin and Florence.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

• Primo Maggio, il Mulino, Bologna 2025, 176 pp.
• Beyond the Myth of the Golondrinas: Rhetoric and Reality of Italian Mobilities to and from Argentina (1880-1920), in «Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung», 35, 1-2, 2025, pp. 122-140 (special issue edited by Agnes Gehbald, Philipp Horn, and Rea Vogt: Atlantic Crossings: Temporary Migration and Labour around 1900)
• Networks in competion: the ILO’s Occupational Health and Safety Section and the ISSA in the 1950s, in Stefano Gallo (ed.), Networks of Labour. International officers and formal networks in the history of the International Labour Organization, NDF-SISLav, Palermo 2024, pp. 203-227
• Storia del lavoro nell’Italia contemporanea, con Fabrizio Loreto, il Mulino, Bologna 2023, 424 pp.
• Fascismo, sindacato e democrazia secondo Albert Thomas (1919-1932), in «Studi storici» n. 4, ottobredicembre 2021, pp. 915-939
• Il Commissariato per le migrazioni e la colonizzazione interna (1930-1940). Per una storia della politica migratoria del fascismo, Editoriale Umbra, Foligno 2015, 224 pp.
• L’emigrazione italiana. Storia e documenti, con Michele Colucci, Morcelliana, Brescia 2015, 312 pp.
• Senza attraversare le frontiere. Le migrazioni interne dall’Unità a oggi, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012, 236 pp.