Anatomy of the Italian occupational structure: concentrated power and distributed knowledge

Abstract

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Working from home and the explosion of enduring divides: income, employment and safety risks

“…We resort to the anatomy of the Italian occupations developed in Cetrulo et al. ( 2020a ) assigning scores to attributes of power, knowledge and learning, ICT skills, creativity and team-working, per each 4-digit occupation. Then, we investigate what happens to those segments not able to work remotely.…”

Hierarchies, Knowledge, and Power Inside Organizations

“…In the view presented here, management does have a fundamental coordinating role, and in that, it sides with Landes (1986) and not Marglin (1974). However, its precise role has to be understood with respect to the tension between knowledge and power and their distribution within the organization (Cetrulo et al 2020). Workers' role as source of knowledge on how to make things can hardly be suppressed.…”

What drives employment–unemployment transitions? Evidence from Italian task-based data

“…The greater unemployment risks faced by some specific categories of workers (regardless of the greater or lesser routineness of their tasks) may not only be related to labor-saving technologies expected to 'punish' primarily routine-intensive jobs. Indeed, the risk could also be associated with other sector-specific characteristics including the prevailing arrangement in terms of industrial relations and the intensity of competition (Cetrulo, 2019a;Dosi et al 2019).…”

“…iii) changes in labor legislation implying a generalized weakening of protection against dismissal accompanied by the spread of temporary employment. These changes have fueled a broad process of 'risk-shifting' from firms to workers with the latter bearing an increasing share of the (economic and occupational) risks related to market volatility (Brian and Rafferty, 2018;Cetrulo et al 2019a).…”