Address: Dipartimento di Sociologia e Diritto dell'ecnomia Università di Bologna Strada Maggiore 45 40125 Bologna vando.borghi@unibo.it http://www.unibo.it/docenti/vando.borghi tel. +39 051 2092866
Anche nella pandemia che stiamo attraversando, la catastrofe e il trauma sono temi da ridiscutere... more Anche nella pandemia che stiamo attraversando, la catastrofe e il trauma sono temi da ridiscutere. Un percorso di libri per ragionare e mettere in parole la condizione attuale. Su Sebald e Kluge
The paper focuses on the complex relationship between experience, knowledge and information as we... more The paper focuses on the complex relationship between experience, knowledge and information as well as on the ways in which sociology can enhance efforts of emancipation concerning that relationship. This processual relationship, in our view, is particularly crucial as it configures the range of the possible embedded in the real, combining and conditioning in this way both the cognitive and normative dimension. This relationship is addressed as the result of the interplay between what we conceive in terms of infrastructures of experience, on the one side, and what Amartya Sen defines as the informational basis “for judgment and justice”. The paper aims at deepening the emancipatory potential of sociology as far as this relationship is concerned. Its reasoning is then structured in three main parts. First, it resumes some of the most significant features of the relationship between infrastructures of experience and informational basis. Second, it explores the meaning of these analytical (and epistemological) keys and the way they help us to grasp the contemporary transformations of the focused relationship. Finally, it tentatively outlines the way social research should interpret cosmopolitanism from below for contrasting the worst consequences of that transformation and for enlarging the possible embedded into the real.
Una riflessione su conoscenza e società, a partire da due testi pubblicati di recente: Esperti. C... more Una riflessione su conoscenza e società, a partire da due testi pubblicati di recente: Esperti. Come studiarli e perché, di Davide Caselli (Il Mulino 2020) e Welfare, capacità e conoscenza. Le basi informative dell’azione pubblica, di Carlotta Mozzana (Carocci 2019).
Piattaforme dell’economia dell’arricchimento, le città rischiano di trasformarsi in spazi in cui ... more Piattaforme dell’economia dell’arricchimento, le città rischiano di trasformarsi in spazi in cui l’attività delle persone, tanto sotto forma di forza-lavoro quanto di forza di consumo, contribuisce al progressivo impoverimento dell’utopia intrinseca del processo urbano, quel “potenziale trasformativo” che il paradigma della Zona cerca di tradurre in modo conforme alle finalità economico-commerciali che esso incarna.
Per comprendere il significato dei luoghi attraversati dalle merci occorre mettersi sulle tracce ... more Per comprendere il significato dei luoghi attraversati dalle merci occorre mettersi sulle tracce di un rapporto. In altri termini, il luogo è un artefatto simbolico che incarna materialmente frames, schemi cognitivi e significati sociali che lo rendono familiare, praticamente comprensibile, parte di una sorta di seconda natura nella quale, proprio in forza di tale naturalezza, possiamo muoverci ad una bassa soglia di attenzione, attraverso routine e comportamenti irriflessi. Tuttavia è il rapporto sociale in esso tacitamente inscritto che dobbiamo inseguire se vogliamo comprenderne il senso e le condizioni di trasformazione.
L’ambizione di questo intervento è quella di dare consistenza allo sfondo in relazione al quale... more L’ambizione di questo intervento è quella di dare consistenza allo sfondo in relazione al quale emerge la necessità di ridefinire la con-cezione dell’homo faber, che costituisce il perno su cui si sono incar-dinati i diversi formati dell’attività umana nell’evoluzione del capi-talismo. Si tratta di uno sfondo cui contribuisce la realtà che emerge dalla (mancata) promessa del capitalismo, le macerie sociali, ecolo-giche, culturali, politiche che il suo sviluppo lascia dietro di sé. Allo stesso tempo, a tale sfondo contribuisce anche il «possibile» che sempre si intreccia con il «reale», per quanto in forma potenziale, condizionale, sottotraccia. Su tale sfondo si proietta l’urgenza di una politica della cura, che investa pienamente (anche) il lavoro umano, il modo in cui esso è concepito, organizzato e mobilitato sia nelle at-tività produttive sia in quelle riproduttive.
Can a cross- sectional reading of the various historical forms in which a specific method – the c... more Can a cross- sectional reading of the various historical forms in which a specific method – the camp form – of a specific collectivity has taken shape, and what (the people) is to be kept separate from it, be formulated? The difficulties that hinder attempts to present a single reading linking together different places and spaces – refugee camps, concentration camps, transit camps, identification camps – in which such practices take concrete shape (de facto, the building of a boundary), with widely varying purposes, meanings and consequences, should not be underestimated. Far from ignoring such distinctions, they must be used, increasing abstraction by a degree, in order to focus on the ways in which a social configuration functions (this is the underlying hypothesis), a ‘sociation form’ in Georg Simmel’s words. The objective, in other words, is to come up with a social organization logic that bypasses specific subjects’ experiences – however dramatic – of the (diverse) concrete manifestations of the camp form. According to this hypothesis, in fact, the forms of interaction – to use Simmel’s words once again – constitute the visible element in a more complex social logic: a social form is to be analysed as a ‘concept of reality [...] as a network of reciprocal influences between a plurality of elements’.
Engaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving field, Lavinia Bifulco and Va... more Engaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving field, Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi bring together contributions from leading social scientists to debate the enduring relevance of public sociology in light of ongoing changes in the social world. Multidisciplinary in approach, this incisive Research Handbook advances dialogues between diverse scientific and environmental perspectives, and considers how best to design and conduct research in different scientific fields. Chapters discuss current teaching and critical thought within the discipline, identify promising analytical approaches through which to research key aspects of social transformation, and investigate the relationship between sociology and its various publics. Rather than reproducing a fixed analytical programme, the Research Handbook explores the potential of public sociology to collaborate and hybridize with novel research paths. Pushing the frontiers of public sociology, this insightful Research Handbook will prove an engaging and invaluable resource for social scientists and sociological communities, as well as for students in the social sciences. Its exploration of the applications of public sociology in empirical research and teaching will further benefit professionals working within public organizations.
Sommario: 1. Lavoro e coesione sociale – 2. Homo faber (fortunae suae) e le sue rovine – 2.1. Olt... more Sommario: 1. Lavoro e coesione sociale – 2. Homo faber (fortunae suae) e le sue rovine – 2.1. Oltre una concezione economicista del lavoro umano – 2.2. Le rovine dell’homo faber – 3. La solidarietà nel “pianeta”: una questione di politica della cura – 3.1. Rovinare, curare – 3.2. Istituire la solidarietà nell’orizzonte della politica della cura.
The “sense of justice” as a political-moral object that animates social action – coordination, co... more The “sense of justice” as a political-moral object that animates social action – coordination, conflict, local compromise – is investigated by Luc Boltanski in the wake both of the Durkhemian and Weberian sociological tradition. It also constitutes one of the main areas of focus for the French pragmatic sociology, where it shifts from the perspective of “critical sociology” to the “sociology of critical capacity”, reconceptualising critique as a situated component of ordinary life and not (only) as the prerogative of an observer, external and in an elevated position in relation to the reality he investigates. L'intero volume è liberamente accessibile, in Creative Commons: https://books.fupress.com/catalogue/idee-di-lavoro-e-di-ozio-per-la-nostra-civilt/13650
Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe
The Chapter deals with the process of transformation of knowledge into what Amartya Sen identifie... more The Chapter deals with the process of transformation of knowledge into what Amartya Sen identifies as fundamental pillar of our societies and of collective decisions they shape, that is the \u2018informational basis\u2019 which policies and public action are based on. This is a crucial process, since it strongly contributes to frame the territory over which policies are going to intervene, establishing how the borders of this territory have to be drawn, what has to be included and what can be dropped off into the area of legitimate social, political and bureaucratic indifference. Such a process has to be historically and sociologically situated, in order to fully understand the way actors\u2019 capacities are implied in it. In the first part of the Chapter it is introduced and discussed the so called \u2018trap of trajectorism\u2019, that characterizes the field of tension configured by the capitalist mode of translating the space of possibility opened by modernity: the relationship knowledge/informational basis results strongly affected by social inequalities and concurs itself in reproducing them. An approach inspired from a cosmopolitanism from below is then explored, according to which citizens\u2019 capacities \u2013 in terms of capacity to aspire \u2013 can be actively involved in the process of transformation of knowledge into informational basis. A redefinition of the knowledge production process in terms of human right to research seems to be the direction to be addressed, for strengthening this relationship between capacity and knowledge. In this sense, cosmopolitanism from below represents a necessary, stimulating challenge for revitalizing their own role in what are claimed to be \u201cknowledge societies\u201d
Review of Lavinia Bifulco, Social Policy and Public Action (New York: Routledge, 2017) - This boo... more Review of Lavinia Bifulco, Social Policy and Public Action (New York: Routledge, 2017) - This book has a very ambitious idea of the way a sociological analysis should be conducted and, jumping immediately to one of the conclusions of our review, it results to be a very important book as it is fully up to that ambition. Its ambitious nature lies in an approach that aims at avoiding the trap of assuming the definition of the research object already made by other agencies (policy makers, practitioners, administrations, social workers, etc.), which is often the limit of many sociological approaches to different matters and themes. Too often, in fact, such analyses remain hostage to the already-packed gaze with which different actors of the field analysed determine what is relevant and what is not, what is important and what can be overlooked. At the contrary, Lavinia Bifulco assumes that gaze itself \u2013 incorporated in concepts, definitions, technical devices, social and organizational practices \u2013as a precious entry point for addressing what should always be the real object of any sociological analysis, independently from the particular field explored, that is the social. The social, the ways it is defined, produced and organized through the public action and the social policies, in different social spheres and experiences, is the real subject of this book
Il volume raccoglie contributi di ricerca originali, con l'obbiettivo di affrontare da un pun... more Il volume raccoglie contributi di ricerca originali, con l'obbiettivo di affrontare da un punto di vista sociologico un tema che negli anni recenti, in tale ambito disciplinare, \ue8 stato ampiamente trascurato. La questione della sicurezza al lavoro non \ue8 esauribile nella applicazione di regole e procedure tese ad evitare incidenti e/o malattie, ma rimanda, direttamente o indirettamente, alla definizione stessa del lavoro come rapporto sociale, al costante processo di costruzione sociale della \u201cforza-lavoro\u201d, alla concezione dell\u2019impresa e delle organizzazioni, al problema della forma contratto e della sua capacit\ue0 di produrre corsi d\u2019azione, al rapporto tra basi informative e processi decisionali e, pi\uf9 in generale, alla democrazia stessa nei luoghi di lavoro. Il rapporto tra lavoro e sicurezza \ue8 cambiato significativamente nel corso della storia recente del nostro Paese e su tale cambiamento ha inciso significativamente, come per ogni altra materia politico-sociale, l\u2019azione dell\u2019Unione Europea, nonch\ue9 il peso crescente delle forme di regolazione privata sopranazionale (attraverso l\u2019imposizione di standard, procedure di certificazione, di regolazione). Questo numero di Sociologia del lavoro nel cercare di illustrare questo complesso scenario, affronta le questioni sollevate dalla relazione tra lavoro e sicurezza attraverso contributi che cercano di mettere a fuoco sia le pratiche sociali sia le categorie cognitive che la presiedono
Il paper č sostanzialmente diviso in tre parti. Nella prima vengono richiamate le ragioni per cui... more Il paper č sostanzialmente diviso in tre parti. Nella prima vengono richiamate le ragioni per cui č attualmente importante rimettere il rapporto tra terra e lavoro al centro delle analisi del capitalismo contemporaneo e sono rapidamente delineate alcune caratteristiche chiave di quest'ultimo. Nella seconda, sono introdotte alcune delle principali questioni in gioco nell'analisi del rapporto tra terra e lavoro e viene accennato al modo in cui esse sono affrontate nei diversi contributi raccolti nella rivista. Infine, si mostra come le questioni fin qui indicate chiamino in causa i temi dell'agency del lavoro, in termini di forme della rappresentanza (sociale, politica, sindacale) e di contro-movimento, di "capacitŕ di aspirare" degli individui e di "giustizia cognitiva".
Anche nella pandemia che stiamo attraversando, la catastrofe e il trauma sono temi da ridiscutere... more Anche nella pandemia che stiamo attraversando, la catastrofe e il trauma sono temi da ridiscutere. Un percorso di libri per ragionare e mettere in parole la condizione attuale. Su Sebald e Kluge
The paper focuses on the complex relationship between experience, knowledge and information as we... more The paper focuses on the complex relationship between experience, knowledge and information as well as on the ways in which sociology can enhance efforts of emancipation concerning that relationship. This processual relationship, in our view, is particularly crucial as it configures the range of the possible embedded in the real, combining and conditioning in this way both the cognitive and normative dimension. This relationship is addressed as the result of the interplay between what we conceive in terms of infrastructures of experience, on the one side, and what Amartya Sen defines as the informational basis “for judgment and justice”. The paper aims at deepening the emancipatory potential of sociology as far as this relationship is concerned. Its reasoning is then structured in three main parts. First, it resumes some of the most significant features of the relationship between infrastructures of experience and informational basis. Second, it explores the meaning of these analytical (and epistemological) keys and the way they help us to grasp the contemporary transformations of the focused relationship. Finally, it tentatively outlines the way social research should interpret cosmopolitanism from below for contrasting the worst consequences of that transformation and for enlarging the possible embedded into the real.
Una riflessione su conoscenza e società, a partire da due testi pubblicati di recente: Esperti. C... more Una riflessione su conoscenza e società, a partire da due testi pubblicati di recente: Esperti. Come studiarli e perché, di Davide Caselli (Il Mulino 2020) e Welfare, capacità e conoscenza. Le basi informative dell’azione pubblica, di Carlotta Mozzana (Carocci 2019).
Piattaforme dell’economia dell’arricchimento, le città rischiano di trasformarsi in spazi in cui ... more Piattaforme dell’economia dell’arricchimento, le città rischiano di trasformarsi in spazi in cui l’attività delle persone, tanto sotto forma di forza-lavoro quanto di forza di consumo, contribuisce al progressivo impoverimento dell’utopia intrinseca del processo urbano, quel “potenziale trasformativo” che il paradigma della Zona cerca di tradurre in modo conforme alle finalità economico-commerciali che esso incarna.
Per comprendere il significato dei luoghi attraversati dalle merci occorre mettersi sulle tracce ... more Per comprendere il significato dei luoghi attraversati dalle merci occorre mettersi sulle tracce di un rapporto. In altri termini, il luogo è un artefatto simbolico che incarna materialmente frames, schemi cognitivi e significati sociali che lo rendono familiare, praticamente comprensibile, parte di una sorta di seconda natura nella quale, proprio in forza di tale naturalezza, possiamo muoverci ad una bassa soglia di attenzione, attraverso routine e comportamenti irriflessi. Tuttavia è il rapporto sociale in esso tacitamente inscritto che dobbiamo inseguire se vogliamo comprenderne il senso e le condizioni di trasformazione.
L’ambizione di questo intervento è quella di dare consistenza allo sfondo in relazione al quale... more L’ambizione di questo intervento è quella di dare consistenza allo sfondo in relazione al quale emerge la necessità di ridefinire la con-cezione dell’homo faber, che costituisce il perno su cui si sono incar-dinati i diversi formati dell’attività umana nell’evoluzione del capi-talismo. Si tratta di uno sfondo cui contribuisce la realtà che emerge dalla (mancata) promessa del capitalismo, le macerie sociali, ecolo-giche, culturali, politiche che il suo sviluppo lascia dietro di sé. Allo stesso tempo, a tale sfondo contribuisce anche il «possibile» che sempre si intreccia con il «reale», per quanto in forma potenziale, condizionale, sottotraccia. Su tale sfondo si proietta l’urgenza di una politica della cura, che investa pienamente (anche) il lavoro umano, il modo in cui esso è concepito, organizzato e mobilitato sia nelle at-tività produttive sia in quelle riproduttive.
Can a cross- sectional reading of the various historical forms in which a specific method – the c... more Can a cross- sectional reading of the various historical forms in which a specific method – the camp form – of a specific collectivity has taken shape, and what (the people) is to be kept separate from it, be formulated? The difficulties that hinder attempts to present a single reading linking together different places and spaces – refugee camps, concentration camps, transit camps, identification camps – in which such practices take concrete shape (de facto, the building of a boundary), with widely varying purposes, meanings and consequences, should not be underestimated. Far from ignoring such distinctions, they must be used, increasing abstraction by a degree, in order to focus on the ways in which a social configuration functions (this is the underlying hypothesis), a ‘sociation form’ in Georg Simmel’s words. The objective, in other words, is to come up with a social organization logic that bypasses specific subjects’ experiences – however dramatic – of the (diverse) concrete manifestations of the camp form. According to this hypothesis, in fact, the forms of interaction – to use Simmel’s words once again – constitute the visible element in a more complex social logic: a social form is to be analysed as a ‘concept of reality [...] as a network of reciprocal influences between a plurality of elements’.
Engaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving field, Lavinia Bifulco and Va... more Engaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving field, Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi bring together contributions from leading social scientists to debate the enduring relevance of public sociology in light of ongoing changes in the social world. Multidisciplinary in approach, this incisive Research Handbook advances dialogues between diverse scientific and environmental perspectives, and considers how best to design and conduct research in different scientific fields. Chapters discuss current teaching and critical thought within the discipline, identify promising analytical approaches through which to research key aspects of social transformation, and investigate the relationship between sociology and its various publics. Rather than reproducing a fixed analytical programme, the Research Handbook explores the potential of public sociology to collaborate and hybridize with novel research paths. Pushing the frontiers of public sociology, this insightful Research Handbook will prove an engaging and invaluable resource for social scientists and sociological communities, as well as for students in the social sciences. Its exploration of the applications of public sociology in empirical research and teaching will further benefit professionals working within public organizations.
Sommario: 1. Lavoro e coesione sociale – 2. Homo faber (fortunae suae) e le sue rovine – 2.1. Olt... more Sommario: 1. Lavoro e coesione sociale – 2. Homo faber (fortunae suae) e le sue rovine – 2.1. Oltre una concezione economicista del lavoro umano – 2.2. Le rovine dell’homo faber – 3. La solidarietà nel “pianeta”: una questione di politica della cura – 3.1. Rovinare, curare – 3.2. Istituire la solidarietà nell’orizzonte della politica della cura.
The “sense of justice” as a political-moral object that animates social action – coordination, co... more The “sense of justice” as a political-moral object that animates social action – coordination, conflict, local compromise – is investigated by Luc Boltanski in the wake both of the Durkhemian and Weberian sociological tradition. It also constitutes one of the main areas of focus for the French pragmatic sociology, where it shifts from the perspective of “critical sociology” to the “sociology of critical capacity”, reconceptualising critique as a situated component of ordinary life and not (only) as the prerogative of an observer, external and in an elevated position in relation to the reality he investigates. L'intero volume è liberamente accessibile, in Creative Commons: https://books.fupress.com/catalogue/idee-di-lavoro-e-di-ozio-per-la-nostra-civilt/13650
Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe
The Chapter deals with the process of transformation of knowledge into what Amartya Sen identifie... more The Chapter deals with the process of transformation of knowledge into what Amartya Sen identifies as fundamental pillar of our societies and of collective decisions they shape, that is the \u2018informational basis\u2019 which policies and public action are based on. This is a crucial process, since it strongly contributes to frame the territory over which policies are going to intervene, establishing how the borders of this territory have to be drawn, what has to be included and what can be dropped off into the area of legitimate social, political and bureaucratic indifference. Such a process has to be historically and sociologically situated, in order to fully understand the way actors\u2019 capacities are implied in it. In the first part of the Chapter it is introduced and discussed the so called \u2018trap of trajectorism\u2019, that characterizes the field of tension configured by the capitalist mode of translating the space of possibility opened by modernity: the relationship knowledge/informational basis results strongly affected by social inequalities and concurs itself in reproducing them. An approach inspired from a cosmopolitanism from below is then explored, according to which citizens\u2019 capacities \u2013 in terms of capacity to aspire \u2013 can be actively involved in the process of transformation of knowledge into informational basis. A redefinition of the knowledge production process in terms of human right to research seems to be the direction to be addressed, for strengthening this relationship between capacity and knowledge. In this sense, cosmopolitanism from below represents a necessary, stimulating challenge for revitalizing their own role in what are claimed to be \u201cknowledge societies\u201d
Review of Lavinia Bifulco, Social Policy and Public Action (New York: Routledge, 2017) - This boo... more Review of Lavinia Bifulco, Social Policy and Public Action (New York: Routledge, 2017) - This book has a very ambitious idea of the way a sociological analysis should be conducted and, jumping immediately to one of the conclusions of our review, it results to be a very important book as it is fully up to that ambition. Its ambitious nature lies in an approach that aims at avoiding the trap of assuming the definition of the research object already made by other agencies (policy makers, practitioners, administrations, social workers, etc.), which is often the limit of many sociological approaches to different matters and themes. Too often, in fact, such analyses remain hostage to the already-packed gaze with which different actors of the field analysed determine what is relevant and what is not, what is important and what can be overlooked. At the contrary, Lavinia Bifulco assumes that gaze itself \u2013 incorporated in concepts, definitions, technical devices, social and organizational practices \u2013as a precious entry point for addressing what should always be the real object of any sociological analysis, independently from the particular field explored, that is the social. The social, the ways it is defined, produced and organized through the public action and the social policies, in different social spheres and experiences, is the real subject of this book
Il volume raccoglie contributi di ricerca originali, con l'obbiettivo di affrontare da un pun... more Il volume raccoglie contributi di ricerca originali, con l'obbiettivo di affrontare da un punto di vista sociologico un tema che negli anni recenti, in tale ambito disciplinare, \ue8 stato ampiamente trascurato. La questione della sicurezza al lavoro non \ue8 esauribile nella applicazione di regole e procedure tese ad evitare incidenti e/o malattie, ma rimanda, direttamente o indirettamente, alla definizione stessa del lavoro come rapporto sociale, al costante processo di costruzione sociale della \u201cforza-lavoro\u201d, alla concezione dell\u2019impresa e delle organizzazioni, al problema della forma contratto e della sua capacit\ue0 di produrre corsi d\u2019azione, al rapporto tra basi informative e processi decisionali e, pi\uf9 in generale, alla democrazia stessa nei luoghi di lavoro. Il rapporto tra lavoro e sicurezza \ue8 cambiato significativamente nel corso della storia recente del nostro Paese e su tale cambiamento ha inciso significativamente, come per ogni altra materia politico-sociale, l\u2019azione dell\u2019Unione Europea, nonch\ue9 il peso crescente delle forme di regolazione privata sopranazionale (attraverso l\u2019imposizione di standard, procedure di certificazione, di regolazione). Questo numero di Sociologia del lavoro nel cercare di illustrare questo complesso scenario, affronta le questioni sollevate dalla relazione tra lavoro e sicurezza attraverso contributi che cercano di mettere a fuoco sia le pratiche sociali sia le categorie cognitive che la presiedono
Il paper č sostanzialmente diviso in tre parti. Nella prima vengono richiamate le ragioni per cui... more Il paper č sostanzialmente diviso in tre parti. Nella prima vengono richiamate le ragioni per cui č attualmente importante rimettere il rapporto tra terra e lavoro al centro delle analisi del capitalismo contemporaneo e sono rapidamente delineate alcune caratteristiche chiave di quest'ultimo. Nella seconda, sono introdotte alcune delle principali questioni in gioco nell'analisi del rapporto tra terra e lavoro e viene accennato al modo in cui esse sono affrontate nei diversi contributi raccolti nella rivista. Infine, si mostra come le questioni fin qui indicate chiamino in causa i temi dell'agency del lavoro, in termini di forme della rappresentanza (sociale, politica, sindacale) e di contro-movimento, di "capacitŕ di aspirare" degli individui e di "giustizia cognitiva".
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Introduction: The Idea of Form, Informality, and Aspirations of Workers Supriy... more Table of Contents
Introduction: The Idea of Form, Informality, and Aspirations of Workers Supriya Routh & Vando Borghi
Part I: Neo-liberalism, State, and Regulation in formulating Informality
1. Tackling the informal economy: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal de-regulatory perspective Colin C Williams and Alvaro Martinez 2. Informal Economy and Neoliberal State Zoran Slavnic 3. Reforms, individualization, and informal employment in urban China Sandra Constantin
Part II: Law in Formalising Informal Workers 4. The ILO and the informal economy: tackling the concept from a legal perspective Claire La Hovary 5. Framing Informality in a Labour Court Roberto Fragale 6. Inequalities of social security towards informal employment in China Aiqing Zheng 7. Informal Workers and Consumocratic Law Martin Dumas
Part III: Informal Workers and their Multidimensional Interactions 8. Informal Employment and Absence of Job Security: Where Social Inequality Begins, and Where it Leads. Employment and Policies in Argentina, 2003-2014 Claudia Danani & Javier Lindenboim 9. Informal employment: Social Space and Capacities of Actors in Russia Petr Bizyukov 10. Informal work and socioeconomic transformations in Africa: the case of Cameroon Alioum Idrissou 11. Informal Workers’ Organising Strategies in India and Argentina Supriya Routh & Marisa Fassi 12. Workers & the Global Informal Economy: Issues and Perspectives Vando Borghi
ABSTRACT The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of informal work in today’s global economy, presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical, anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic.
Workers and the Global Informal Economy explores varying definitions of informality in the backdrop of neo-liberal market logic, exploring how it manifests itself in different regions around the world, and its relationship with formal work. This volume demonstrates how neo-liberalism has been instrumental in accelerating informality and has resulted in the increasingly precarious position of the informal worker. Using different methodological approaches and regional focuses, this book considers key questions such as whether workers exercise choice over their work; how constrained such choices are; how social norms shape such choices; how work affects their well-being and agency; and what role culture plays in the determination of informality.
This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to policy-makers and researchers engaging with informality from different disciplinary and regional perspectives.
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L'intero volume è liberamente accessibile, in Creative Commons: https://books.fupress.com/catalogue/idee-di-lavoro-e-di-ozio-per-la-nostra-civilt/13650
L'intero volume è liberamente accessibile, in Creative Commons: https://books.fupress.com/catalogue/idee-di-lavoro-e-di-ozio-per-la-nostra-civilt/13650
Introduction: The Idea of Form, Informality, and Aspirations of Workers Supriya Routh & Vando Borghi
Part I: Neo-liberalism, State, and Regulation in formulating Informality
1. Tackling the informal economy: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal de-regulatory perspective Colin C Williams and Alvaro Martinez
2. Informal Economy and Neoliberal State Zoran Slavnic
3. Reforms, individualization, and informal employment in urban China Sandra Constantin
Part II: Law in Formalising Informal Workers
4. The ILO and the informal economy: tackling the concept from a legal perspective Claire La Hovary
5. Framing Informality in a Labour Court Roberto Fragale
6. Inequalities of social security towards informal employment in China Aiqing Zheng
7. Informal Workers and Consumocratic Law Martin Dumas
Part III: Informal Workers and their Multidimensional Interactions
8. Informal Employment and Absence of Job Security: Where Social Inequality Begins, and Where it Leads. Employment and Policies in Argentina, 2003-2014 Claudia Danani & Javier Lindenboim
9. Informal employment: Social Space and Capacities of Actors in Russia Petr Bizyukov
10. Informal work and socioeconomic transformations in Africa: the case of Cameroon Alioum Idrissou
11. Informal Workers’ Organising Strategies in India and Argentina Supriya Routh & Marisa Fassi
12. Workers & the Global Informal Economy: Issues and Perspectives Vando Borghi
ABSTRACT
The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of informal work in today’s global economy, presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical, anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic.
Workers and the Global Informal Economy explores varying definitions of informality in the backdrop of neo-liberal market logic, exploring how it manifests itself in different regions around the world, and its relationship with formal work. This volume demonstrates how neo-liberalism has been instrumental in accelerating informality and has resulted in the increasingly precarious position of the informal worker. Using different methodological approaches and regional focuses, this book considers key questions such as whether workers exercise choice over their work; how constrained such choices are; how social norms shape such choices; how work affects their well-being and agency; and what role culture plays in the determination of informality.
This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to policy-makers and researchers engaging with informality from different disciplinary and regional perspectives.