98898 - History of Work and Professions (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, students will be able to identify the main methodologies used to study the Industrial Age as regards the world of work and the professions. They will be able to analyse, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the main changes that have taken place from the industrial age to the present day, both from the point of view of economic processes and of labour relations (subordinate and autonomous) and, finally, from the point of view of the transformations that are taking place in the labour market under the effects of globalisation. They will be able to engage in comparative analyses of different spatio-temporal contexts, with particular reference to the Euro-Atlantic area. They will be able to evaluate the role of the historian in promoting a critical and scientific approach to issues of interest to society.

Course contents

The course focuses on the secular transformations in the field of labour (including wage labour and self-employement). The focus is the development of both the industrial and the post-industrial societies, the birth of class distinctions and the industrial relations and conflicts that followed, the social, cultural and political developments that are founded on productive activity and labour relations and provide the main engine of social change in the modern age.The thematic areas that will be considered are: the socio-economic condition of workers in the various industrial sectors; the history of technologies, work organization and professionalism; the birth and evolution of those groups, like trade unions and employers associations, that aim to advance the economic interest of its members; the meeting and clash between worker and employer cultures; the difficult road towards a regulation of industrial relations; the contemporary changes regarding contents, forms and places of work.

Main topics covered in the lecture:

• Organisational models and practices
• Innovation and work productivity
• Trade unions and industrial relations
• Labour and gender inequality
• Labour and generational inequality
• Labour migration

Readings/Bibliography

Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending.

Attending students

Students who attend the lectures are required to submit a paper focusing one of the topics developed in the courses by professor Cantagalli. Bibliographical references will be provided, on a case-by-case basis, by the lecturer during the lectures.

 

Non-attending students

Students who don't attend the lectureswill have to study the following books (1 and 2):

1) Required textbook:

 S. Gallo e F. Loreto, Storia del lavoro nell’Italia contemporanea, Bologna, il Mulino, 2023.

2) Other two books to be studied will be chosen from the list below:

- A. Accornero, Era il secolo del lavoro, Bologna, il Mulino, 1997.

- A. Badino, Tutte a casa? Donne tra migrazione e lavoro nella Torino degli anni Sessanta, Roma, Viella, 2008.

- C. Bernardi, F. Ricciardi, Le frontiere del contratto: status, mobilità, dipendenza (XIX-XX secolo), Palermo, New Digital Frontiers, 2022.

- G. Berta, L’Italia delle fabbriche. Genealogie ed esperienze dell’industrialismo nel Novecento, Bologna, il Mulino, 2001.

- S. Bologna e A. Fumagalli (a cura di), Il lavoro autonomo di seconda generazione. Scenari del postfordismo in Italia, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1997.

- S. Bologna e D. Banfi, Vita da freelance. I lavoratori della conoscenza e il loro futuro, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2011.

- G. Bonazzi, Il tubo di cristallo. Modello giapponese e fabbrica integrata alla Fiat Auto, Bologna, il Mulino, 1993.

- F. Butera et.al. (a cura di), Knowledge Working. Lavoro, lavoratori, società della conoscenza, Milano, Mondadori Università, 2008.

- F. Carnevale e A. Baldasseroni, Mal da lavoro. Storia della salute dei lavoratori, Laterza, 2000.

- F. Carnevale, L' epopea dell'amianto. Una mortale pandemia di lunga durata, Milano, Polistampa, 2020.

- G. Bonazzi e S. Negrelli (a cura di), Impresa senza confini. Percorsi, strategie e regolazione dell’outsourcing nel post-fordismo maturo, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2003.

- E. Di Caro, Magistrate finalmente. Le prime giudici d’Italia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2023.

- F. Fauri, Storia economica delle migrazioni italiane, Bologna, il Mulino, 2015.

- D. Marini, Fuori classe. Dal movimento operaio ai lavoratori imprenditivi della Quarta rivoluzione industriale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2018.

- S. Luzzatto, Giù in mezzo agli uomini. Vita e morte di Guido Rossa, Torino, Einaudi, 2021.

- E. Moretti, La nuova geografia del lavoro, Milano, Mondadori, 2017.

- S. Negrelli, Le trasformazioni del lavoro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2013.

- A. Pescarolo, Il lavoro delle donne nell'Italia contemporanea, Roma, Viella, 2019.

- T. Ohno, Lo spirito Toyota, Torino, Einaudi, 1993.

- A. Pellegrino, Homo Faber. Mito e realtà del lavoro artigiano nella società industriale. Italia, Europa e Stati Uniti, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2021.

- M. Revelli, Lavorare in Fiat, Milano, Garzanti, 1989.

- S. Rinauro, Il cammino della speranza. L'emigrazione clandestina degli italiani nel secondo dopoguerra, Torino, Einaudi, 2009.

- S. Rogari, Sindacati e imprenditori. Le relazioni industriali in Italia dalla caduta del fascismo a oggi, Firenze Le Monnier, 2000.

- U. Romagnoli, Giuristi del lavoro. Percorsi italiani di politica del diritto, Roma, Donzelli, 2009.

- A. Rosina, NEET. Giovani che non studiano e non lavorano, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2015.

- E. Rullani, La fabbrica dell'immateriale. Produrre valore con la conoscenza, Roma, Carocci, 2004 (qualsiasi edizione).

- A. Sangiovanni, Tute blu. La parabola operaia nell'Italia repubblicana, Roma, Donzelli, 2006.

Teaching methods

Lectures, with viewing of the materials and documents examined. Students will be encouraged to discuss the course topics collectively.

Assessment methods

Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending.

Attending students

Students who attend the lectures are required to submit a paper (minimum 50,000 - maximum 60,000 characters) focusing one of the topics developed in the courses by professor Cantagalli.

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

The evaluation of the paper will consider the student's capacity to make use of sources and bibliography related to the selected topic. For attending students the assessment will take into account also oral presentation (critical skills, clarity, and command of the specific language), dedication and active participation in class and during other students' presentations.

Students who demonstrate to have a global outlook and a good design of the selected topic and to use an appropriate language, will receive an excellent evaluation. Student who write a paper only based on the existing bibliography without making use of sources, will receive an adequate evaluation. Training gaps and / or inappropriate writing, even in a context of minimal knowledge of the subject, will lead to a sufficient evaluation. Training gaps, inappropriate writing, lack of orientation within the bibliographic materials will be evaluated negatively.

 

Non-attending students

Students who don't attend the lectures will be evaluated on the basis of an oral exam. They will be asked questions aimed to assess their knowledge of the reading materials. The questions will also aim to evaluate the students' command of the specific language, their critical skills, and capacity of re-organizing the acquired information.

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

In-depth knowledge of the reading materials, with good analytical and critical skills and command of the specific language will qualify for a good/excellent mark.

Acceptable and more mechanical knowledge of the reading materials, and/or not always appropriate use of the language will lead to a sufficient/fair mark.

Fragmentary knowledge of the reading materials, weak critical skills, and/or insufficient command of the specific language and will lead to a failure or to a pass mark.

 

This 6 CFU course can be chosen as a part of the 12 CFU Integrated Course "CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL STRUCTURES (C.I.) (LM)". If the student has the Integrated Course (12 CFU) in his/her study plan, the final grade will result from the arithmetic average of the marks obtained in the two parts ("HISTORY OF INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS (1) (LM)" and "HISTORY OF WORK AND PROFESSIONS (1) (LM)").

Teaching tools

The teaching tools used during the lessons will also be available on virtuale.unibo.it

Students who, for reasons dependent on disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), require compensatory tools must first contact the appropriate office: https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students

Office hours

See the website of Alessandra Cantagalli