Francesco Massimo

Sciences Po Paris | IEP · Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO)

The global COVID-19 pandemic acted as an exogenous shock that forced organizations to adopt homeworking as a common form of work for many occupations. Drawing on a real-time cross-occupational qualitative survey, we first examined how compulsory homeworking affected workers’ freedom to define and perform their tasks. Second, we analyzed how differe...

The development of platform capitalism and the digitization of labor processes have enabled scholars and the public to describe the contemporary organization of work giving particular emphasis to the role of algorithms. Through document analysis, interviews, participant observation and a direct work experience in two Amazon distribution centers, th...

Dans la longue histoire du mouvement des coopératives de travailleurs en Italie, la logistique est devenue l’un des secteurs les plus importants durant ces dernières décennies. Pourtant, les coopératives ont entamé, au cours des années 1990, un processus généralisé d’« entrepreneurisation ». Par leur cooptation dans les chaînes internationales de v...

Drawing from the ethnographic and participant observation in the most important Amazon logistics hub in Italy, this paper propose to understand platform capitalism through the perspective of Taylorism and scientific management. In the first section of the paper the internal functioning of the distribution center is described, particularly with resp...

During his long political trajectory Bruno Trentin (1926-2007) never ceased to question the relationship between work and democracy. The Italian intellectual and trade union leader denounced the domination of the «productivist ideology» of scientific management over the entire social and political Left. According to this ideology, trade union actio...

A full understanding of the technological complexity underlying robotics and automation is still lacking, most of all when focusing on the impacts on work in services. By means of a qualitative analysis based on over 50 interviews to HR managers, IT technicians, workers and trade union delegates, this work provides evidence on the main changes occu...

The global pandemic induced by the spread of the Covid-19 acted as an exogenous shock which forced organisations to adopt telework as a daily and common form of work along a relevant fraction of the occupational structure. Indeed, most of the growing contributions on telework focused on the estimation of employment which can work remotely, while le...

JRC Working Papers Series onLabour, Education and Technology During the Covid crisis the population in regime of telework jumped from 3% to 25%of the workforce. This study aims at better understanding how the massive shift to telework following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic affected workers’ jobs and lives in France during the first lockdo...

Un'analisi quantitava e qualitativa del mercato del lavoro del settore trasporto merci/logistica/magazzinaggio in Italia

Il termine logistica ha conosciuto negli ultimi anni una diffusione inedita sia nel campo della ricerca specialistica sia nel senso comune. Si tratta dunque di un termine polisemico che negli anni ha acquisito una pluralità di significati e usi, non sempre compatibili fra loro.Possiamo identificare tre tipi di definizione che si sono formate nel te...