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Vincenzo Maccarrone

@bigmacca.bsky.social
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Industrial relations, political economy and sociology of work.

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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
@abieler.bsky.social and I wrote a piece for @ppesydney.bsky.social summarising the main arguments of our edited volume Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis www.ppesydney.net/critical-pol...
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Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How is the European polycrisis inflected through the classed, raced, gendered and environmental conditions of global capitalism today?
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British Journal of Industrial Relations @bjireditor.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
📣New #BJIR article! 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘜𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 @bigmacca.bsky.social shows how the neoliberalisation & Europeanisation of IR are both intertwined & variegated. Read here👇[open access] doi.org/10.1111/bjir...
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Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions
The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long-standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, ...
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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The Twin Cities strike began in solidarity with immigrant workers and pushed a political demand: ICE OUT OF MN! It’s estimated 75,000 to 100,000 people marched through downtown Minneapolis. The conditions were ripe for an upsurge. labornotes.org/2026/01/twin...
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In The Twin Cities, A Massive Strike Against ICE
Icicles hung from the beards of men in union beanies. The lobbies of large commercial buildings in downtown Minneapolis opened to the public for respite filled with people rubbing each other’s sore fe...
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I'm happy to share this article, which is now out in open access in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, and seeks to contribute to the debate on neoliberalisation & europeanisation of industrial relations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions
The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long-standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, ...
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Next week there will be the online launch of the volume 'Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis', which I co-edited with @abieler.bsky.social Join us on February 9 at 6 pm London Time/ 7 pm UK time! Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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Book Launch: Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis
Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis - a public talk by Prof Andreas Bieler and Dr Vincenzo Maccarrone.
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Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
On the 22nd of January (incidentally, the date of Gramsci's birthday) my article came out in @gpejournal.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Next Monday and Tuesday at @sns.it in Florence we will host the final workshop of my Marie Curie project 'Global Labour Governance: an integrated approach', funded by @horizoneu.bsky.social The full programme is available here, with possibility of joining online: www.sns.it/it/evento/gl...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/11/2025
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Happy to have been part of this collective endeavour to understand what's happening in the EU's political economy - check out our chapter: "A lasting legacy? A critical political economy perspective on Berlusconism and its afterlives"
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Great to see this collective volume edited with @abieler.bsky.social published! It critically engages with the concept of polycrisis, while building on the illustrious tradition of critical political economy of European integration The book is available here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/cri...
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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CPERN @cpern.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Online workshop: Urban social movements as extended class actors Join us on 25 September to discuss Sarah Uhlmann's article about struggles over social reproduction! With discussants @miria-gam.bsky.social and @bonfert.bsky.social Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there!
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Sarah Uhlmann 'Urban social movements as extended class actors: struggles over reproduction in Buenos Aires, New York City and Hamburg', in Global Political Economy. Discussants: Miria Gambardella a...
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 09/09/2025
German carmaker when Korean carmaker gets raided by secret police: “Not concerned at all. Actually hell yes! Gotta follow the rules!!“ on.ft.com/4gzdDlT
Ola Källenius, chief executive of Mercedes-Benz, which has plants in the US, said on Monday that he was not concerned about broader impact from the arrests: "You have to respect rules and regulations. We do that and we will continue to invest [in the US]."
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
With @gemmagasseau.bsky.social we have a new short piece in Capital & Class, where we analyse continuties and changes in European economic governance. We argue that, despite the changes since the pandemic, EU integration remains centered on neoliberalism (1)
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
anyone remember skill-biased technical change?
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
check it out!
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The new issue of the Global Labour Journal is out, and it includes an article I wrote with Francesco Massimo and Angelo Moro on tariffs and the US labor movement ttps://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/6728
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
In our next MAX CPE workshop @angelawigger.bsky.social‬ will present her paper on "Delegating Decarbonization: How InvestEU Empowers Financial Capital at the Expense of a Democratic Governance of EU Industrial Policy". 📅 Wednesday June 4, 13:00 CEST 📍 online Sign up: s.gwdg.de/rXs4Xn
June 4, "EU Industrial Policy. Crowding in Financial Capital, Crowding Out Democratic Oversight". Angela Wigger, Radboud University
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 22/05/2025
Without Water, We Have Nothing Blue Community Ambassador Gemma Gasseau is organizing an online workshop with Blue Community Ambassador Caitling Schroering. Online workshop on the 29th May at 18.00 CEST blue-community.net/2...
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
At @sns.it in Florence we are hosting a debate between Wolfgang Streeck and Beverly Silver on Monday 19 at 16.00 CET. There will be also the possibility to join online! www.sns.it/en/node/768394
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 04/04/2025
"Markets are crashing because today, markets are based on the stock value of companies who today embedded are embedded in modes of production that are bad for the United States." If you're surprised by Rubio sounding like a Marxist-theory-of-financialization guy, you forget that in 2019... 1/2
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Oggi sul @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social con Angelo Moro e Francesco Massimo torniamo a parlare di dazi in USA, analizzando le risposte dei big dell'auto (con breve chiosa finale sul sindacato) ilmanifesto.it/dazi-i-big-d...
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Dazi, i big dell’auto vanno in ordine sparso ma Stellantis chiude già qualche linea | il manifesto
Auto e dintorni (Internazionale) I dazi generalizzati annunciati da Donald Trump nel ‘liberation day’ hanno solo apparentemente risparmiato l’industria automobilistica, per la quale rimarranno in vigo...
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Less than a week left to apply to our upcoming conference, "Reclaiming power: Bridging Social Movements and Industrial Relations in Labour Mobilisation" at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy, on May 26 and 27. All info here: cosmos.sns.it/news/call-fo...
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Con Francesco Massimo e Angelo Moro sul @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social di oggi analizziamo criticamente la posizione del sindacato Usa verso i dazi di Trump ilmanifesto.it/si-ai-piani-...
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Sì ai piani di Trump, l’abbaglio del sindacato americano | il manifesto
Auto e dintorni (Economia) La decisione dell’amministrazione Trump di imporre dazi su tutte le auto importate negli Stati uniti a partire dal 3 aprile (e sulle componenti più importanti come motore e ...
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César Guzmán-Concha @guzmancesar9.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The main consequence of the aggressive trade policy pursued by the Trump regime is the acceleration of South-South economic integration and cooperation.
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Our co-editor-in-chief @monicaclua.bsky.social is delivering the keynote lecture of the Economists without borders conference in Madrid this evening 👇
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Less than a week left to submit an abstract for our conference 'Countervailing Platform Power', Florence, 26-27 June. We've now added info on the four great keynote speakers @veenadubal.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @trebors2025.bsky.social & Vasilis Kostakis www.sns.it/it/evento/co...
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Countervailing Platform Power | ScuolaNormaleSuperiore
The rapid expansion of digital platforms has profoundly reshaped labor markets, social movements, and economic structures. While platformization has exacerbated labor precarity and power asymmetries, ...
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This morning, FACULTY UNIONS led by @aaup.bsky.social sued the Trump administration over the unlawful funding cuts at Columbia. We will not let the federal government use coercion to rob us of academic freedom and critical research! So proud of my union! protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
📣 Out now! 📕 New publication edited by ETUI researchers @kurtvandaele.bsky.social and Silvia Rainone, and published by @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
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Kurt Vandaele @kurtvandaele.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work, co-edited with @silviarainone.bsky.social, is now available @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @etui.bsky.social Thanks to the authors for their insights on app-based food delivery! More info 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the... #GigEconomy #FoodForThought
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The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work
‘Bringing together leading voices, this Companion offers a critical and forward-looking analysis of how to regulate the industry''s impact on work and workers. With insightful case studies and expert ...
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Oggi anche a Firenze ci mobilitiamo per l'università pubblica!
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Nel nuovo numero cartaceo di @jacobinitalia.bsky.social sul sindacato c'è anche un mio articolo insieme a Lisa Dorigatti sulla stagnazione salariale e il ruolo del sindacato jacobinitalia.it/rivista/il-s...
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Il sindacato siamo noi - Jacobin Italia
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Great to see this out! It features also a chapter by me, @aritassinari.bsky.social, Lorenzo Cini and Joerg Nowak on platform workers' mobilisation and organising practices in Germany, Ireland, Italy and the UK.
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🚀 Call for Papers – Countervailing Platform Power: Regulation, Organizing & Intersectional Solidarities 📌 June 26-27 in Florence 📌 Topics: 🔹 Migration, Gender & Digital Platforms 🔹 Platform Work Directive, Unions, Co-ops 📅 Submit by April 1 CfP: www.sns.it/it/evento/co...
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CPERN @cpern.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Join our Online Workshop on 27 March to discuss the book 'Exiting the Factory: Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector' With author @alexandergallas.bsky.social and discussant @abieler.bsky.social On zoom, register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there!
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Alexander Gallas - Exiting the Factory discussant: Andreas Bieler
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Trump says the arrest of a student at Columbia University is the ‘first of many’ in his administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism. The lawyer of student Mahmoud Khalil, who is a US resident, says his whereabouts are currently unknown.
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Trump says Palestinian Columbia University student’s arrest ‘first of many’
US president hails arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, who led Columbia student protests at against Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I had some fun writing an accessible text for learners seeking resources to problematize mainstream economics. This is especially meaningful to me because since my bachelor's in economics, I have spent much of the past decade thinking about how to study politically the economy shorturl.at/lohRl
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Oggi a Pisa per discutere di classe, razza e genere negli Stati Uniti contemporanei
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Oggi sarò a Mantova al Cinema del Carbone presentare #Union, il documentario che racconta il primo vittorioso processo di sindacalizzazione di un magazzino Amazon negli USA La proiezione è parte della rassegna Mondovisioni insieme a @internazionale.it ilcinemadelcarbone.it/film/union
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Il 1° aprile 2022 un gruppo di lavoratori è entrato nella storia riuscendo in ciò che tutti ritenevano impossibile: vincere una elezione interna per diventare la prima sede sindacalizzata di ...
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This got buried in the news yesterday but union density falling into single digits is one of the most ominous milestones of the past 50 years, which have been defined by the inequality crisis. Imperative for this to be a big, big wake up call. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confirmed-...
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Confirmed: Unions Squandered the Biden Years
Welcome to single-digit union density.
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Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Just published in “Governance”. Our analysis shows that the shift to a new economic governance regime after 2008 provided EU leaders with new tools that allowed them to revive their stalled rail and water commodification agenda; at the price of accentuating the EU democratic & justice deficit.
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Commodifying Public Utilities: EU's New Governance Prescriptions for Rail and Water
In the mid-2000s, the Single Market Program and European Monetary Union lost momentum, as public services advocates increasingly succeeded in tempering attempts to liberalize public utilities through...
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Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
During my PhD I often had to explain how I am a 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭 and at the same time researching 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, so I ended up writing a piece about it! Reviewing five excellent books, I trace the (porous) contours of an IPE of water, and argue that it should be feminist, critical and relational.
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Bridging the international political economy of water: social reproduction, governance and non-state actors
Water governance has recently gained increasing political and academic attention. However, in many of these debates, it is often narrowly understood as a set of institutional arrangements, rather t...
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Oggi sono intervenuto a Tutto Scorre su @radiopopolare.bsky.social per parlare di USA, lavoro, salari e politiche economiche dopo i primi giorni del governo Trump. Grazie a Massimo Alberti per l'invito. Dal minuto 45, più o meno. www.radiopopolare.it/trasmissione...
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Tutto scorre - Radio Popolare
Sguardi, opinioni, vite, dialoghi ai microfoni di Radio Popolare.
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Our chapter on different forms of regional integration and how they affect the decent work agenda is now available in open access as part of the 'The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals'. doi.org/10.4337/9781... @rolanderne.bsky.social @profmicheleford.bsky.social
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Chapter 32: Regional integration: a promising tool to advance the international decent work agenda?
The role of regional organisations in support of the decent work agenda depends not only on their enforcement power but also on the prevailing views and the balance of social class forces within them....
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Nel momento più strategico prima delle feste, migliaia di lavoratrici e lavoratori Amazon negli Stati Uniti - organizzati dai Teamster - sono entrati in sciopero stamattina in molteplici magazzini in quattro stati diversi. E' il più grande sciopero contro Amazon nella storia degli USA
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Last month,Valter De Cillis, a driver who worked for a contractor of Amazon, was fired. De Cillis is a union activist for the Unione Sindacale di Base. This reportage by @artefr.bsky.social tells his story and the campaign that followed. I also gave a few quotes. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...
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En Italie, une campagne de soutien à Valter, livreur de colis - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
Valter De Cillis était livreur pour une société de logistique italienne qui travaille pour Amazon à Pise, en Italie. Il a été licencié, son employeur lui reprochant de ne pas avoir réussi à livrer ses...
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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I lavoratori di magazzino Amazon di New York JFK8, il primo ad essere stato sindacalizzato negli USA, scenderanno in sciopero prima di Natale - il momento più profittevole dell'anno - perchè l'azienda si rifiuta di negoziare con il loro sindacato
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Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The people’s budget? How business interests and fiscal constraints shaped the economic policies of the Italian populist government with @bigmacca.bsky.social for @gpejournal.bsky.social we analyze the negotiations around Italy's 2019 budgetary plan bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Here is Stefano Gasparri's review of the comparative work on #European trade unions by Jeremy Waddington and coauthors @etui.bsky.social that examines how such #institutions are crucial in the coherent strategies and policies against #neoliberal challenges. doi.org/10.1177/0019...
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