Giorgio PIRINA

SCOLARSHIPS, RESEARCH CONTRACTS & ACTIVITIES

University lectures as speaker

May 5th, 2022. Lecture title: “Nature, technology, and human work: the platform capitalism”, master’s teaching “Laboratorio produzione scenari: metodi e strategie” [Laboratory scenarios generation: methods and strategies] held by prof. Dario Padovan, Master’s degree in Communication, ICT and media (Classe LM-59), Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Turin.

April 21st, 2022. Lecture title: “Ideologia digitale, sfruttamento materiale. Fare ricerca nel mondo phygital: interviste, conversazioni, osservazione, shadowing” [Digital ideology, material exploitation. Doing research on the phygital world: interviews, conversations, observation, shadowing], master’s teaching “Tecniche della ricerca sociale qualitativa” [Theory and methods of social research] held by prof. Francesco Della Puppa, Master’s degree in “Lavoro, cittadinanza sociale, interculturalità” [Labor, social citizenship, interculturality], Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

May 12th, 2021. Lecture title: “Nature, technology and human work: post-capitalist perspectives”, master’s teaching “Laboratorio produzione scenari: metodi e strategie” [Laboratory scenarios generation: methods and strategies] held by prof. Dario Padovan, Master’s degree in Communication, ICT and media (Classe LM-59), Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Turin.

October 13th, 2020. Lecture title: “La geografia dei videogiochi” [The geography of videogame], in the master’s teaching: “Videogiochi, gamification e nuovi media culturali” [Videogames, gamification and new cultural media], held by Dr. Emanuele Leonardi, Master’s degree in: “Giornalismo, cultura editoriale e comunicazione multimediale”, Department of humanities, social disciplines and cultural enterprises, University of Parma.

Debates/seminars as speaker

• June 15thm 2022. Series of debartes “Novas” e “velhas” formas de exploração da força de trabalho no Brasil:opressões e superexploração da força de trabalho”, organizzato da: Grupo de Pesquisa Trabalho e Direitos Humano/NUTSS/ESS/UFF. Debate title: Opressão-exploração na divisão internacional do trabalho: cadeias produtivas, novas tecnologias e “velhas” formas de exploração.
• September 29th, 2021. The RC52 Webinar series (ISA): Dematerialisation of Platform Work (?) and disillusion of Platform Bike Couriers, organized by RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups (Responsible: Prof. Christian Azais, LISE/CNAM). Presentation’s title: ‘The materiality of digital platforms: the case of Uber in Portugal’. 
• October 05th, 2020. Series of debates: Entre a Escravidão e a busca pela dignidade do trabalho: limites do capital [Between slavery and the pursuit of dignity of work: the limits of Capital], organized by “Grupo de Pesquisa Trabalho e Direitos Humano/NUTSS/ESS/UFF” and by “Grupo Mundo do Trabalho e suas Metamorfoses/IFCH/Unicamp. Debate’s title: ‘Plataformas digitais e aplicativos: a escravidão digital’.

Events organization

• May – July 2022. Series of seminars “Beyond digital myths: work and nature in transition”, organized by C.I.Do.S.Pe.L. (Centro Internazionale di Documentazione e Studi Sociologici sui Problemi del Lavoro), held at the Department of Sociology and Business Law of the University of Bologna . Scientific and organizational committee (University of Bologna): Ch.mo prof. Vando Borghi, Laura Tanzini, Giada Coleandro, Gianmarco Peterlongo, Giorgio Pirina.
• December 2020 – June 2021.  Series of seminars “Mappe del sociale.  Temi, problemi e linee di ricerca per esplorare il capitalismo delle infrastrutture” [Maps of the social. Themes, issues and research lines to explore the Infrastructures Capitalism], organized by Ph.D students of C.I.Do.S.Pe.L. (Centro Internazionale di Documentazione e Studi Sociologici sui Problemi del Lavoro), held at the Department of Sociology and Business Law of the University of Bologna . Scientific and organizational committee (University of Bologna): Ch.mo prof. Vando Borghi, Laura Tanzini, Giada Coleandro, Gianmarco Peterlongo, Giorgio Pirina.
• January – February 2020. Series of seminars “Capitalismo delle infrastrutture, infrastrutture dell’esperienza: antropocene, lavoro e città” [Infrastructure Capitalism, infrastructures of experience: Anthropocene, labour and city], organized by C.I.Do.S.Pe.L. (Centro Internazionale di Documentazione e Studi Sociologici sui Problemi del Lavoro), held at the Department of Sociology and Business Law of the University of Bologna . Scientific and organizational committee (University of Bologna): Ch. Prof. Vando Borghi, Dr. Marco Marrone, Gianmarco Peterlongo, Dr. Davide Olori, Giorgio Pirina, Dr. Gianluca De Angelis.

PROJECTS

04/2019 – 12/2019  -  Plus (Platform labour in urban spaces: fairness, welfare, development). Awarding body: European Union, H2020 Research Programme H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018. Grant Agreement No. 822638, (https://project-plus.eu/). Research partner, Centre of Social Studies – University of Coimbra

04/2021 – 12/2021 - Plus (Platform labour in urban spaces: fairness, welfare, development). Awarding body: European Union, H2020 Research Programme H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018. Grant Agreement No. 822638, (https://project-plus.eu/). Junior researcher, Centre of Social Studies – University of Coimbra

CONGRESSES AND SEMINARS

April 21st – 23rd,2022 - The materiality of digital plaforms: the case of Uber in Portugal.40th International Labour Process Conference (ILPC) - Labour Mobility and Mobilization of Workers. University of Padua

June 9-12th, 2021 - (With Gianmarco Peterlongo) Infrastrutture, piattaforme digitali ed economie urbane. Un’indagine multi-situata sul caso di Uber, tra Buenos Aires e Lisbona.

V convegno Sisec - L’Italia alla prova dell’emergenza: istituzioni, mercati, società.            University of Catania

February 23-28th, 2021 Digital platforms and cities. The cases of Bologna city of food and Lisbon tvde service.

IV ISA Forum of Sociology Challenges of the 21°century: democracy, environment, inequalities, intersectionality.   Porto Alegre

September 17-19th, 2020          (With Dr. Emanuele Leonardi) “Uber in the Portuguese gig economy. A Laboratory for platform capitalism”.

XIII Conferenza ESPAnet Italia: Il Welfare State di fronte alle sfide globali.      Cà Foscari - Venezia

January 30th – February 1st, 2020         (With Dr. Emanuele Leonardi) “Digital platforms and cities: the case of Uber service in Lisbon”.

IV Convegno Sisec: La riscoperta del valore. Politeismo e ibridazione dei mercati.            University of Turin

October 14 –16th, 2019 “O trabalho decente na epoca da uberização”.

XII Reunião Científica Trabalho Escravo Contemporâneo e Questões Correlatas, organizzata dal GPTEC (Grupo de Pesquisa sobre o Trabalho Escravo Contemporaneo) del nucleo de Estudos de Políticas Públicas em Direitos Humanos Suely Souza de Almeida     Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro

September 18–21st, 2019          (With prof. Valter Zanin) “Repensando o trabalho escravo contemporâneo no Brasil à luz do contexto internacional”. II Congresso da Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa (ABRE)          École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) - Parigi

August 20 – 23rd, 2019 “Digital platforms and cities: the cases of Bologna city of food and Lisbon TVDE service”.

14th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Europe and beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging University of Manchester e Manchester Metropolitan University - Manchester, Regno Unito

February 31 January – 2nd, 2019           “La capacità di aspirare nella gig economy, tra degradazione del lavoro e pratiche trasformative”.

III Convegno Sisec: Sviluppo e disuguaglianze. A Sud del Nord e a Nord del Sud.            University Federico II - Naples

October 14 –16th, 2018 “Degradação do trabalho no capitalismo de plataformas: o caso de coltan”.

XI Reunião Científica Trabalho Escravo Contemporâneo e Questões Correlatas, organizzata dal GPTEC (Grupo de Pesquisa sobre o Trabalho Escravo Contemporaneo) del nucleo de Estudos de Políticas Públicas em Direitos Humanos Suely Souza de Almeida     Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte

May 29 – 31st, 2018  “Degradazione e precarizzazione del lavoro nella filiera del coltan, tra le miniere del Kivu e la gig economy”.

Conference: Lavoro non libero, coatto, forzato, schiavistico contemporaneo: categorie e casi su scala internazionale      University of Padua

February 21 – 23rd, 2018  “Piattaforme digitali e uberizzazione: un’analisi della materialità sociale”. Conferenza: Territori, mobilità, lavori         University of Padua

PUBBLICATIONS

Book

2022 - Connessioni globali. Una ricerca sul lavoro nel capitalismo delle piattaforme [Global connections. A research on labou in the platform capitalism]. Milano: Franco Angeli (forthcoming)

Book chapter

2022 - (With Franco Tomassoni) Portugal: um laboratório para a Uber. In Pavoni, Andrea e Tomassoni, Franco (edited by) A Produção de Mundo. Problemas Logísticos e Sítios Críticos [The Production of the World. Logistical Problems and Critical Sites]. Lisboa: Cooperativa Outro Modo [Le Monde Diplomatique] (pp. 249-261)

2021 - O trabalho decente na época da uberização [The Decent Work in the Age of Uberization]. In Figueira, Ricardo Rezende; Prado, Adonia Antunes; Mota, Murilo Peixoto (edited by) Escravidão Ilegal: Migração, Gênero e Novas Tecnologias em Debate‏ (pp. 647-667). Rio de Janeiro: Mauad Editora Ltda.

2021 - Degradação do trabalho no capitalismo de plataformas. O caso de coltan [Work Degradation in the Platform Capitalism. The Case of Coltan] In Haddad, Carlos Henrique Borlido; Miraglia, Lívia Mendes Moreira; Figueira, Ricardo Rezende; Fernandes, Samuel Almeida (edited by) Discussões interdisciplinares sobre a escravidão contemporânea Belo Horizonte (MG): Carlos Henrique Borlido Haddad (pp. 145-167).

2020 - (With Luca Onesti) The Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Serra de Estrela, Between UNESCO Geopark and Lithium Mining. In Queiros, Antonio dos Santos (edited by) Examining a New Paradigm of Heritage with Philosophy, Economy, and Education (pp. 205-222). Hershey PA, Usa: IGI Global.

Journal article peer-reviewed

Lavoro di piattaforma e indebolimento della società salariale. Il caso del food delivery bolognese [Platform labour and the weakening of wage-earning society. The case of food delivery in Bologna], Sociologia del lavoro, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2022 (forthcoming)

(With Marco Marrone e Gianmarco Peterlongo) La classe operaia va nel cyberspazio. Il capitalismo di piattaforma oltre i miti della digitalizzazione [The Working Class goes to the Cyberspace. Platform Capitalism Beyond the Myth of Digitizaion], Economia e società regionale, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2021, (pp. 127-151) DOI: 10.3280/es2021-001011

(With Emanuele Leonardi) Uber in the Portuguese gig economy: a laboratory for platform capitalism, Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, Highgate, Pluto Journals, 2020, (pp. 46–63) DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.14.2.0046

Capitalismo delle piattaforme e materialità sociale. Degradazione del lavoro e della natura lungo la filiera del coltan [Platform capitalism and social materiality. Degradation of work and nature along the coltan productive chain], Culture della Sostenibilità, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2020, (pp. 1-21) DOI: 10.7402/cds.25.07

Sharing economy e uberizzazione: uno sguardo d’insieme [Sharing Economy and Uberization: an overview], The Lab’s Quarterly, Pisa, 2019, (pp. 7-25) DOI: 10.13131/1724-451X.LABSQUARTERLY.AXXI.N4.7

OTHER INFORMATIONS

2022 - current. Teaching assistant, scientific disciplinary sector SPS/07

2022 - current: member of editorial board of “Ritratti” Publishing series (Rosenberg & Sellier)

2020 – current: collaborator of the research group C.I.Do.S.Pe.L. (Centro Internazionale di Documentazione e Studi Sociologici sui Problemi del Lavoro – International Centre of Documentation and Sociological Studies on labour Issues), Department of Sociology and Business Law – University of Bologna.