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IL PRECARIATO PUBBLICO TRA NORMATIVA ITALIANA E BACCHETTATE DALL'EUROPA (CONSIDERAZIONI A MARGINE DELLA SENTENZA DELLA CORTE DI GIUSTIZIA 26 NOVEMBRE…
2014
Il saggio, prendendo le mosse dalla sentenza Mascolo della Corte di giustizia del 26 novembre 2014, analizza la situazione italiana del precariato pubblico mettendo in evidenza le specificità del personale della scuola con riguardo alle diverse tipologie di assunzione con contratto a tempo determinato. L’esame si sofferma, poi, sulle tecniche argomentative della giurisprudenza comunitaria e nazionale con riguardo alla individuazione delle sanzioni applicabili in caso di successione abusiva di contratti a tempo determinato. La constatazione che i giudici di merito e la stessa Corte di Cassazione pervengono a decisioni non univoche e non soddisfacenti spinge a formulare soluzioni che de iure …
Precarious work and social protection: between flexicurity and social pollution
2019
The chapter explores the possibility of changing the way in which any social and legal system guarantees social protections for the weakest workers. To do so it elaborates a unique functional set for classifying all kind of precariat, which it names the ‘un[der]-protected workers’. The issue of the precariat is held as an imbalance in the flexicurity balance, considered akin to pollution in the social environment: so-called social pollution. The proposed method to counterbalance the lack of security/protection and rebalance flexicurity is a ‘(non-wage) Social Security (virtual or) Fake (Pigouvian) Tax’ (the SSFT). The idea is that this device either forces companies to hire through SERs (wh…
The Making and Unmaking of Precarity : Some Concluding Remarks
2015
We live in societies in which the making and unmaking of precarity has a structuring power. In the labour market, precarity is created through laws and practices that reduce protections and benefits; but the labour market itself is also the place where precarity can be unmade through (at least partial) de-commodification and re-regulation. Precarity also penetrates people’s lives and mechanisms of identification, with practices of producing stigma but also of resisting it. Not by chance, the making and unmaking of precarity has become a central focus for contentious politics through the definition of the new subject of the precariat, and the struggles against precarity as a stripping of fun…
The Ethical and Political Contours of Institutional Promotion in eSports: From Precariat Models to Sustainable Practices
2020
This study evaluated five early cases in which esport developer Riot Games made rulings regarding activities and infractions by members of various institutions related to its product, League of Legends. The findings of this study support future theoretical exploration of other esports in seeking a fuller understanding of issues related to consent, power differentials, and roles and behaviors expected of the institutional activities of players and teams in competition. Increased investigation of these—and other—issues from an ethical standpoint could lead to a framework that not only would facilitate future study but also bring opportunities for improvements in practices in concert with nece…
Education, Work and Life
2018
In this chapter, I will study the relationship between education and working life from a few viewpoints. First, I will examine how everyday working life has changed and how education has to change. Second, I will depict how the practices of both education and the working world can and should be researched in terms of the theory of practice architectures. Third, I will come back to reflect on the relationships between work, education and life. The work that people do has increasingly been immaterialized. Working life has been detached from material production which is more and more automated and robotically driven. According to a Swiss professor Schwab (2015, 2016), we have already moved int…
Giving up Farming as a Precarious Decision
2015
‘Precarity’ is a novel noun that is widely recognized and applied in timely political discourses and socioeconomic diagnoses of the present. It refers to fixed-term, temporary, low-paid, insecure, unpredictable, and often risky work. The occupational position of precarious people has been characterized as flexible or flexploitative, informal, casual, intermittent, non-standard, exceptional, often outsourced, or subcontracted. ‘Precarity’ is typically seen to characterize young people, women, immigrants, and service sector workers; but particular segments of creative and immaterial ‘new labour’ are also identified with the ‘precariat’. However, in spite of all these groupings, lists, and clu…
The Precarization Effect
2015
What’s in the name ‘precarization’? Such a question can always be asked when we are dealing with a highly contestable concept (Gallie, 1956) or a family of concepts — as is definitely the case here, where it is also customary to speak about ‘precariousness’, ‘precarity’, and even ‘precariat’. This is a family of concepts or terms that has been defined in so many different and often incompatible ways that the answer to the question seems to greatly depend on the perspective or approach adopted. This is not as big a problem in the case of ‘precariousness’, which can be used to describe a variety of situations and events quite generally; but it makes all the difference when one refers to ‘prec…
Precarietà, flessibilità e teoria del capitale umano
2018
A partire da un punto di vista in debito con le analisi di Foucault, si cercherà di inquadrare la questione della precarietà all’interno della più ampia prospettiva dell’egemonia del neoliberalismo. In particolare, dopo aver descritto alcune delle peculiarità delle forme di vita precarie, ci si soffermerà sul programma di ricerca sul capitale umano, con il quale la riflessione pedagogica non può non aprire un confronto. A tal proposito, alla fine dell’articolo, verranno prese brevemente in esame alcune potenziali alternative al dispositivo teorico del capitale umano.
Explaining the rising precariat in Spain
2020
[EN] Spanish GDP indicator figures recover while the risk of poverty has not stopped increasing since 2007 given the continuous austerity policies adopted by Governments, while labour and welfare conditions have worsened. A new phenomenon is emerging: the flattening of the Spanish middle class. This study proposes a model to quantify the number of individuals according to their level of precariousness in Spain. The model allows us to predict the behaviour of society in Spain given the mimetic nature of humans by constructing a discrete finite epidemiological model that classifies and quantifies the population in Spain according to its risk of precariousness. Our results show a rise in the p…
Misure di contrasto al precariato e stabilizzazioni del personale
2017
Il saggio analizza la giurisprudenza e la normativa di riferimento in merito alle misure di contrasto al precariato e alle stabilizzazioni del personale delle pubbliche amministrazioni alla luce dei principi costituzionali e del diritto dell'Unione Europea.