Soggettività in gioco: la gratuitizzazione del lavoro in una cooperativa sociale

Angelis, Gianluca De

doi:10.3280/sl2017-145008

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“…Thus, if on the one hand we may agree with Sennett when he highlights how, in the new spirit of capitalism, there is no place for the strong passion the craftsman has for his work (Sennett, 2006 , 2008 ), on the other hand, we can observe how, in certain productive fields, work is represented as an opportunity to realize something greater than the work itself. This is the case in several sectors, including social work (De Angelis, 2017 ), intellectual work, and work in the broader cultural field (Armano and Murgia, 2012 , 2013 ). In these sectors, the expression of passion and subjective meanings are considered a means of good production, and this “whip of the beyond” (Rastello, 2014 ) has therefore become a breeding ground for the roots of neoliberal subjectivity (cf.…”

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Gender Inequality in Precarious Academic Work: Female Adjunct Professors in Italy

Angelis

Grüning

2020

Front. Sociol.

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International research studies and national reports point out two specific aspects which characterize women's academic careers (cf. Eagly, 2003; Glass and Cook, 2016). First, few women advance to senior academic roles. Second, although female academics progress in numbers equivalent to their male colleagues up to a certain point, in most cases their academic career paths either stop before they arrive at tenured positions or they remain in the lower ranks of the hierarchical academic structure. Thus, while the numeric growth and temporal extension of fixed-term positions has, overall, increased women's opportunities for researching and teaching at universities, on the other hand, it has impeded their access to tenured positions. To better highlight this dynamic, this article focuses on the situation of female adjunct professors in Italy. The interest in adjunct professors is twofold: on the one hand, the social and economic status of adjunct professors in the Italian academic system have worsened over time, from independent to formal independent workers; on the other hand, compared with other non-tenured positions, there are substantially fewer female adjunct professors than male. We first provide an overall picture of the historical and juridical transformations of the rank distribution of faculty in Italian universities from the perspective of gender. As a second step, we compare the actual working conditions of female and male adjunct professors on the basis of a survey carried out from January to October 2018 (5,556 respondents corresponding to more than 20% of the population) and semi-structured interviews with 31 adjunct professors. The aim of the analysis is to pinpoint objective and subjective gender similarities and differences regarding both socioeconomic variables and the ways male and female adjunct professors think about their academic and extra-academic work; how they experience the academic environment between paid and unpaid work, construct their professional/academic identity, and imagine their professional future and perceive problems related to the administration and organization of their academic work.

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Gender Inequality in Precarious Academic Work: Female Adjunct Professors in Italy

Angelis

Grüning

2020

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“…Thus, if on the one hand we may agree with Sennett when he highlights how, in the new spirit of capitalism, there is no place for the strong passion the craftsman has for his work (Sennett, 2006(Sennett, , 2008, on the other hand, we can observe how, in certain productive fields, work is represented as an opportunity to realize something greater than the work itself. This is the case in several sectors, including social work (De Angelis, 2017), intellectual work, and work in the broader cultural field Murgia, 2012, 2013). In these sectors, the expression of passion and subjective meanings are considered a means of good production, and this "whip of the beyond" (Rastello, 2014) has therefore become a breeding ground for the roots of neoliberal subjectivity (cf.…”

Section: Subjectivities At Stake: the Other Side Of Non-standard Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Non-Standard Work, Self-Employment and Precariousness

2021

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Job quality in worker cooperatives: Beyond degeneration and intrinsic rewards

Dorigatti,

Iannuzzi,

Piro

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Brit J Industrial Rel

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While there are normally positive expectations concerning job quality in cooperatives, many studies have described a more complex picture. The extant literature has, however, found it difficult to deal with evidence of poor working conditions in these organisations. Some contributions downplay the relevance of this issue, arguing that poor extrinsic aspects of job quality are compensated by intrinsic rewards, as confirmed by higher levels of job satisfaction. Others focus on external market pressure and interpret bad labour conditions as a form of degeneration of originally good employment practices. Through a qualitative analysis of job quality in cooperatives in three sectors of the Italian economy (social services, hotel cleaning and meat processing), we advance a different argument: we contend that employment practices associated with poor job quality are not the result of difficult market conditions but are rather the key explanation for the quantitative expansion of this form of economic organisation, which has moved from being an instrument for promoting good employment to a way of ensuring lower labour costs and higher flexibility within outsourcing relationships.

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Soggettività in gioco: la gratuitizzazione del lavoro in una cooperativa sociale

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Gender Inequality in Precarious Academic Work: Female Adjunct Professors in Italy

Gender Inequality in Precarious Academic Work: Female Adjunct Professors in Italy

Non-Standard Work, Self-Employment and Precariousness

Job quality in worker cooperatives: Beyond degeneration and intrinsic rewards

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