SHARE—‘Seizing the Hybrid Areas of work by Re-presenting self-Employment’. She recently edited the book Hybrid Labour: Measuring, Classifying, and Representing Workers at the Boundaries of Employment and Self-employment (Routledge, 2025). She serves as Associate Editor for the journals Organization and Studi Organizzativi.
Gianmarco Peterlongo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan (Italy). He obtained his PhD in Sociology at the University of Bologna in 2022 and has carried out research stays in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, France and Portugal. His work focuses on the metamorphosis of labour, platform capitalism and informal economies. In 2023 he published the book “Nella trama dell’algoritmo. Lavoro e circuiti informali nella gig-economy”, a multi-sited ethnography on platform labour between Europe and Latin America.
Giorgio Pirina holds a degree in Sociology from the University of Padua and a PhD in Sociology and Social Research from the University of Bologna. His research interests focus on the socio-ecological consequences of digital capitalism, platform labour, and territorial inequalities. He currently works as a post-doc research fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, within the project “Exit—Exploring sustainable strategies to counteract territorial inequalities from an intersectional approach” (Horizon Europe). He is the author of the monograph Connessioni Globali. Una ricerca sul lavoro nel capitalismo delle piattaforme (Franco Angeli Editore).
Isabel Roque is a researcher in Sociology of Labour. at Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. She belongs to the Board of Associate Editors of the “Journal of Labour and Society”, and “Journal ofWorking Class Studies”. She is a Rapporteur and Independent External Expert for the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, a member of the “Observatory of Living and Working Conditions” of NOVA University, a member of the EURYO—European Rural Youth Observatory and a member of the Research Group “Work and Social Theory”, University of Brasília. Her research interests focus on: Call and Contact Centres; Digital Platform Work; Precarity; Social Protest Movements; Trade Unionism; Psychosocial Risks; Social Inequalities; Safety and Health at Work; Alienation; Life Trajectories; Vulnerabilities; (Un)employment; Rural NEETs.
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