Devi Sacchetto
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 138666 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Devi Sacchetto |
| NOMBRES | Devi |
| APELLIDO | Sacchetto |
| FIRMA | SACCHETTO D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3087-680X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Accommodation for valorization
The article examines the relationship between forms of worker accommodation and the labour process, aiming to identify the settings in which work is influenced by the ways workers are accommodated. Drawing on a range of case studies, we use secondary analysis to propose a typology of differentiated links between the two spheres. Acceleration in commodity circulation reshapes both the temporal organization of work and the spatial organization of p…
Living at work
There is no stable, standard or typical relationship between work and home under global capitalism. Rather we witness shuffling similar cards in new circumstances, with changing forms of accommodation-work arrangements that organize the relation between labour and dwelling, shaping how labour is recruited, fixed, reproduced and valorized. These arrangements bring production and social reproduction into a shifting and often tense unity, making vis…
The labour fix
The European automotive industry is undergoing deep restructuring, shaped by overproduction, market saturation and profitability pressures. All precede but intersect with the electric transition. This article argues that current changes reflect structural dynamics of capitalism rather than a shift driven solely by electrification. Focusing on supply chains in Italy and Poland, we present findings from qualitative research based on interviews with…
Navigating cross-border labour mobility and employment security in European shipbuilding
This article investigates how cross-border mobility in the European shipbuilding industry affected the employment security of workers on standard and non-standard contracts in sending and receiving countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on qualitative findings from Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland and Romania, where shipbuilding production is integrated into transnational networks, leading to high cross-border mobility. Despite restrictio…
Bangladeshi workers on the edge of the labour regime in Italian Fincantieri shipyards
Based on ethnographic research and interviews conducted over 2 years (2021–2023), mainly with Bangladeshi workers, community leaders, local NGO staff and trade union representatives in two Italian shipyards in Fincantieri, this paper focuses on the interrelations of labour process, social reproduction and migration regime. Our study analyses how the articulations of these three spheres in a specific locality shape social relations within and outs…
Transnational social fields of Italian Bangladeshis in Europe and beyond
In view of the growing onward migration and multisited transnationalism among naturalized EU citizens, this article seeks to advance the current understanding of transnational social fields, cataloguing the complex interplays of migrants' ways of being, belonging, and in‐betweenness across different places and spaces. Drawing on multisited qualitative research with Italian Bangladeshis in Italy and the United Kingdom, the paper presents how their…
Constructing Mobilities
Posted work is often framed as a business model based on social dumping. Widespread regulatory evasion is imputed to regulation's opacity, firms' predatory practices and trade unions' inability to organise posted workers. Isolation and precariousness channel posted workers' agency into individualised reworking or exit strategies. These perspectives, however insightful, focus either on formal regulations, enforcement actors or host countries' inst…
Locating labour conflict and its organising forms in contemporary times
The following article aims to provide a conceptually rooted introduction to the articles in the internationally coordinated themed collection on Labour Conflict, Class and Collective Organization, an initiative which has involved four journals focusing on labour studies from different geographical angles and academic traditions: Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR); Global Labour Journal (GLJ); Partecipazione e Conflitto (PACO); and Revist…
Constructing a transnational childcare bricolage
Research on the childcare arrangements of migrant families has primarily focused on transnational childcare practices or childcare-work reconciliation in the host society, without paying appropriate attention to the dynamic and complex negotiation processes that underlie mobility-childcare coordination. This study proposes the concept of transnational childcare bricolage to explore how Chinese migrant families in Italy mobilize and (re)assemble t…
Confini produttivi e confini lavorativi. La multidimensionalità dell'outsourcing nel capitalismo contemporaneo
L'outsourcing ha conosciuto una forte espansione negli ul-timi decenni, diffonden-dosi trasversalmente in diverse aree, imprese e settori. La sua capacità di adattarsi a mutevoli situazioni sociali e nor-mative lo ha reso lo strumento principale dei processi di ristrutturazio-ne produttiva, finendo per essere considerato una forma paradigmatica dell'organizzazione del capitalismo contemporaneo. Sebbene gran parte dell'attenzione nella letteratura…
Massimiliano Mollona, Cristina Papa, Veronica Redini, Valeria Siniscalchi, Antropologia delle imprese
Recensione di Massimiliano Mollona, Cristina Papa, Veronica Redini, Valeria Siniscalchi, Antropologia delle imprese: Lavoro, reti, merci, Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 220
Shattered Dreams and the Return Home
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Bangladeshi migrants have returned home, while many others are about to be repatriated. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with Bangladeshi migrants who returned from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, this article analyzes the experiences of Bangladeshi laborers overseas during the pandemic to develop a better understanding of why these migrants returned to their home country. The main r…
Subcontracted racial capitalism
The aim of this paper is to extend discussion on subcontracted labour by focussing on the labour process and on the role of race and racialization within it. The existing literature has so far analysed the factors that have encouraged employer decisions to outsource labour, together with its effects on labour conditions and on industrial relations. Missing, however, has been any detailed analysis of the role of race and racialization processes, p…
The dark side of onward migration
Drawing on multisited qualitative research in Italy and the UK, this paper documents the dark side of onward migration and the experiences faced by Italian-Bangladeshis in the UK after the Brexit referendum. The findings show that compared to their position in Italy, Italian-Bangladeshis experienced a downgrading in symbolic, identity-related, and, specifically, socio-economic and cultural aspects in the UK society. The paper also uncovers the po…
The work-technology nexus and working-class environmentalism
This article traces the trajectory of theory and praxis aroundnocivitàor noxiousness - i.e., health damage and environmental degradation - drawn by the workerist group rooted in the petrochemical complex of Porto Marghera, Venice. While Porto Maghera was an important setting for the early activism of influential theorists such as the post-workerist Antonio Negri and the autonomist feminist Mariarosa Dalla Costa, the theories produced by the worke…
For the Future of the Children? The Onward Migration of Italian Bangladeshis in Europe
In this study, we analyse the reasons for the onward migration of Bangladeshis in Italy to the UK after they obtain Italian citizenship. The findings of 51 in‐depth interviews and participant observation with Bangladeshi migrants with Italian citizenship in three cities of north‐eastern Italy and two cities of the UK indicate that Italian Bangladeshis move to the UK, not only for economic reasons, but also, to better manage the cultural and socia…
The mobility of workers living at work in Europe
Scholars, mainly focusing on Asia, consistently describe the im/mobility of workers living at work as orchestrated from above. This article bring to the forefront forms of workers’ mobility that take place outside of the established and often policed tracks. Focusing on Europe, the article shows that the mobility of workers is the outcome of the interplay of both employers’ strategies and workers’ agency. Based on extensive fieldwork among migran…
Transgressing North-South Divide
In Europe, as elsewhere in the global North, the label 'Made in China' has become synonymous with low wages, excessive overtime, and exploitative working conditions. Conventional literature on the international division of labor reifies the North-South divide in particular with respect to class formation and labor agency. Contrasting the working conditions in China to those in Europe sets these up as opposites in their managerial practices and tr…
Multiple Migration and Use of Ties
This article analyses previous multiple migratory trajectories of Bangladeshi first generation migrants before their arrival in Italy and within Italy. It also uncovers the role of social networks and transnational ties in their multiple migrations. The findings show that their first international migration was mainly shaped by their family’s socio‐economic condition and transnational kinship networks. They already had someone from their family o…
A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe
Based on long‐term fieldwork in multiple locations, our article questions the approach that posits a Chinese model of work and employment relations as increasingly exporting its form of labour management and dominating worldwide. It does so by focusing on Europe and discussing two labour regimes considered as typically Chinese: the Chinese fashion workshops in the Italian fashion industry, and the Foxconn electronics plants in the Czech Republic.…
Research Ethics in an Unethical World
This article explores ethical dilemmas in researching the world of work. Recent contributions to Work, employment and society have highlighted challenges for engaged research. Based on the emancipatory epistemologies of Bourdieu, Gramsci and Burawoy, the authors examine moral challenges in workplace fieldwork, question the assumptions of mainstream ethics discourses and seek to identify an alternative approach. Instead of an ethics premised on a …
Disappearing workers
This article investigates the role of temporary work agencies (TWAs) at Foxconn’s assembly plants in the Czech Republic. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows TWAs’ comprehensive management of migrant labour: recruitment and selection in the countries of origin; cross-border transportation, work and living arrangements in the country of destination; and return to the countries of origin during periods of low production. The article asks whe…
Unemployed Migrants Coping with the Economic Crisis. Romanians and Moroccans in Italy
Beyond China
This article shows that global production networks rely on a specific combination of economic and political elements and that labor composition in each production node is specific to the location and contingent on state regulations. The assembly and management of a differentiated labor force are keys to understanding how these networks are constructed. By focusing on the specific composition of the workforce inside the supply chain, we underline …
All of us or none migrant organizing in an era of deportation and dispossession
Disappearing workers
This article investigates the role of temporary work agencies (TWAs) at Foxconn’s assembly plants in the Czech Republic. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows TWAs’ comprehensive management of migrant labour: recruitment and selection in the countries of origin; cross-border transportation, work and living arrangements in the country of destination; and return to the countries of origin during periods of low production. The article asks whe…
For the Future of the Children? The Onward Migration of Italian Bangladeshis in Europe
In this study, we analyse the reasons for the onward migration of Bangladeshis in Italy to the UK after they obtain Italian citizenship. The findings of 51 in‐depth interviews and participant observation with Bangladeshi migrants with Italian citizenship in three cities of north‐eastern Italy and two cities of the UK indicate that Italian Bangladeshis move to the UK, not only for economic reasons, but also, to better manage the cultural and socia…
Transgressing North-South Divide
In Europe, as elsewhere in the global North, the label 'Made in China' has become synonymous with low wages, excessive overtime, and exploitative working conditions. Conventional literature on the international division of labor reifies the North-South divide in particular with respect to class formation and labor agency. Contrasting the working conditions in China to those in Europe sets these up as opposites in their managerial practices and tr…
Multiple Migration and Use of Ties
This article analyses previous multiple migratory trajectories of Bangladeshi first generation migrants before their arrival in Italy and within Italy. It also uncovers the role of social networks and transnational ties in their multiple migrations. The findings show that their first international migration was mainly shaped by their family’s socio‐economic condition and transnational kinship networks. They already had someone from their family o…
Constructing Mobilities
Posted work is often framed as a business model based on social dumping. Widespread regulatory evasion is imputed to regulation's opacity, firms' predatory practices and trade unions' inability to organise posted workers. Isolation and precariousness channel posted workers' agency into individualised reworking or exit strategies. These perspectives, however insightful, focus either on formal regulations, enforcement actors or host countries' inst…
The work-technology nexus and working-class environmentalism
This article traces the trajectory of theory and praxis aroundnocivitàor noxiousness - i.e., health damage and environmental degradation - drawn by the workerist group rooted in the petrochemical complex of Porto Marghera, Venice. While Porto Maghera was an important setting for the early activism of influential theorists such as the post-workerist Antonio Negri and the autonomist feminist Mariarosa Dalla Costa, the theories produced by the worke…
The dark side of onward migration
Drawing on multisited qualitative research in Italy and the UK, this paper documents the dark side of onward migration and the experiences faced by Italian-Bangladeshis in the UK after the Brexit referendum. The findings show that compared to their position in Italy, Italian-Bangladeshis experienced a downgrading in symbolic, identity-related, and, specifically, socio-economic and cultural aspects in the UK society. The paper also uncovers the po…
Research Ethics in an Unethical World
This article explores ethical dilemmas in researching the world of work. Recent contributions to Work, employment and society have highlighted challenges for engaged research. Based on the emancipatory epistemologies of Bourdieu, Gramsci and Burawoy, the authors examine moral challenges in workplace fieldwork, question the assumptions of mainstream ethics discourses and seek to identify an alternative approach. Instead of an ethics premised on a …
Unemployed Migrants Coping with the Economic Crisis. Romanians and Moroccans in Italy
A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe
Based on long‐term fieldwork in multiple locations, our article questions the approach that posits a Chinese model of work and employment relations as increasingly exporting its form of labour management and dominating worldwide. It does so by focusing on Europe and discussing two labour regimes considered as typically Chinese: the Chinese fashion workshops in the Italian fashion industry, and the Foxconn electronics plants in the Czech Republic.…
Beyond China
This article shows that global production networks rely on a specific combination of economic and political elements and that labor composition in each production node is specific to the location and contingent on state regulations. The assembly and management of a differentiated labor force are keys to understanding how these networks are constructed. By focusing on the specific composition of the workforce inside the supply chain, we underline …
Les ouvriers agricoles étrangers dans l'Italie méridionale
Dans les provinces du Mezzogiorno, au sud de l'Italie, les travailleurs agricoles saisonniers étrangers, notamment les Africains, sont rigoureusement encadrés. Victimes d'une relégation spatiale et sociale, ils vivent à l'intérieur de ghettos, dans des mas abandonnés ou des constructions précaires. Dans ces lieux où les migrants reconstruisent un espace de socialisation, le rôle des intermédiaires, les caporali, est déterminant pour l'accès au tr…
Constructing a transnational childcare bricolage
Research on the childcare arrangements of migrant families has primarily focused on transnational childcare practices or childcare-work reconciliation in the host society, without paying appropriate attention to the dynamic and complex negotiation processes that underlie mobility-childcare coordination. This study proposes the concept of transnational childcare bricolage to explore how Chinese migrant families in Italy mobilize and (re)assemble t…
Shattered Dreams and the Return Home
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Bangladeshi migrants have returned home, while many others are about to be repatriated. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with Bangladeshi migrants who returned from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, this article analyzes the experiences of Bangladeshi laborers overseas during the pandemic to develop a better understanding of why these migrants returned to their home country. The main r…
The mobility of workers living at work in Europe
Scholars, mainly focusing on Asia, consistently describe the im/mobility of workers living at work as orchestrated from above. This article bring to the forefront forms of workers’ mobility that take place outside of the established and often policed tracks. Focusing on Europe, the article shows that the mobility of workers is the outcome of the interplay of both employers’ strategies and workers’ agency. Based on extensive fieldwork among migran…
Transnational social fields of Italian Bangladeshis in Europe and beyond
In view of the growing onward migration and multisited transnationalism among naturalized EU citizens, this article seeks to advance the current understanding of transnational social fields, cataloguing the complex interplays of migrants' ways of being, belonging, and in‐betweenness across different places and spaces. Drawing on multisited qualitative research with Italian Bangladeshis in Italy and the United Kingdom, the paper presents how their…
All of us or none migrant organizing in an era of deportation and dispossession
Les ouvriers agricoles étrangers dans l'Italie méridionale
Dans les provinces du Mezzogiorno, au sud de l'Italie, les travailleurs agricoles saisonniers étrangers, notamment les Africains, sont rigoureusement encadrés. Victimes d'une relégation spatiale et sociale, ils vivent à l'intérieur de ghettos, dans des mas abandonnés ou des constructions précaires. Dans ces lieux où les migrants reconstruisent un espace de socialisation, le rôle des intermédiaires, les caporali, est déterminant pour l'accès au tr…
Beyond China
This article shows that global production networks rely on a specific combination of economic and political elements and that labor composition in each production node is specific to the location and contingent on state regulations. The assembly and management of a differentiated labor force are keys to understanding how these networks are constructed. By focusing on the specific composition of the workforce inside the supply chain, we underline …
Disappearing workers
This article investigates the role of temporary work agencies (TWAs) at Foxconn’s assembly plants in the Czech Republic. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows TWAs’ comprehensive management of migrant labour: recruitment and selection in the countries of origin; cross-border transportation, work and living arrangements in the country of destination; and return to the countries of origin during periods of low production. The article asks whe…
Unemployed Migrants Coping with the Economic Crisis. Romanians and Moroccans in Italy
Research Ethics in an Unethical World
This article explores ethical dilemmas in researching the world of work. Recent contributions to Work, employment and society have highlighted challenges for engaged research. Based on the emancipatory epistemologies of Bourdieu, Gramsci and Burawoy, the authors examine moral challenges in workplace fieldwork, question the assumptions of mainstream ethics discourses and seek to identify an alternative approach. Instead of an ethics premised on a …
Multiple Migration and Use of Ties
This article analyses previous multiple migratory trajectories of Bangladeshi first generation migrants before their arrival in Italy and within Italy. It also uncovers the role of social networks and transnational ties in their multiple migrations. The findings show that their first international migration was mainly shaped by their family’s socio‐economic condition and transnational kinship networks. They already had someone from their family o…
A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe
Based on long‐term fieldwork in multiple locations, our article questions the approach that posits a Chinese model of work and employment relations as increasingly exporting its form of labour management and dominating worldwide. It does so by focusing on Europe and discussing two labour regimes considered as typically Chinese: the Chinese fashion workshops in the Italian fashion industry, and the Foxconn electronics plants in the Czech Republic.…
For the Future of the Children? The Onward Migration of Italian Bangladeshis in Europe
In this study, we analyse the reasons for the onward migration of Bangladeshis in Italy to the UK after they obtain Italian citizenship. The findings of 51 in‐depth interviews and participant observation with Bangladeshi migrants with Italian citizenship in three cities of north‐eastern Italy and two cities of the UK indicate that Italian Bangladeshis move to the UK, not only for economic reasons, but also, to better manage the cultural and socia…
The mobility of workers living at work in Europe
Scholars, mainly focusing on Asia, consistently describe the im/mobility of workers living at work as orchestrated from above. This article bring to the forefront forms of workers’ mobility that take place outside of the established and often policed tracks. Focusing on Europe, the article shows that the mobility of workers is the outcome of the interplay of both employers’ strategies and workers’ agency. Based on extensive fieldwork among migran…
Transgressing North-South Divide
In Europe, as elsewhere in the global North, the label 'Made in China' has become synonymous with low wages, excessive overtime, and exploitative working conditions. Conventional literature on the international division of labor reifies the North-South divide in particular with respect to class formation and labor agency. Contrasting the working conditions in China to those in Europe sets these up as opposites in their managerial practices and tr…
Subcontracted racial capitalism
The aim of this paper is to extend discussion on subcontracted labour by focussing on the labour process and on the role of race and racialization within it. The existing literature has so far analysed the factors that have encouraged employer decisions to outsource labour, together with its effects on labour conditions and on industrial relations. Missing, however, has been any detailed analysis of the role of race and racialization processes, p…
The dark side of onward migration
Drawing on multisited qualitative research in Italy and the UK, this paper documents the dark side of onward migration and the experiences faced by Italian-Bangladeshis in the UK after the Brexit referendum. The findings show that compared to their position in Italy, Italian-Bangladeshis experienced a downgrading in symbolic, identity-related, and, specifically, socio-economic and cultural aspects in the UK society. The paper also uncovers the po…
The work-technology nexus and working-class environmentalism
This article traces the trajectory of theory and praxis aroundnocivitàor noxiousness - i.e., health damage and environmental degradation - drawn by the workerist group rooted in the petrochemical complex of Porto Marghera, Venice. While Porto Maghera was an important setting for the early activism of influential theorists such as the post-workerist Antonio Negri and the autonomist feminist Mariarosa Dalla Costa, the theories produced by the worke…
Confini produttivi e confini lavorativi. La multidimensionalità dell'outsourcing nel capitalismo contemporaneo
L'outsourcing ha conosciuto una forte espansione negli ul-timi decenni, diffonden-dosi trasversalmente in diverse aree, imprese e settori. La sua capacità di adattarsi a mutevoli situazioni sociali e nor-mative lo ha reso lo strumento principale dei processi di ristrutturazio-ne produttiva, finendo per essere considerato una forma paradigmatica dell'organizzazione del capitalismo contemporaneo. Sebbene gran parte dell'attenzione nella letteratura…
Massimiliano Mollona, Cristina Papa, Veronica Redini, Valeria Siniscalchi, Antropologia delle imprese
Recensione di Massimiliano Mollona, Cristina Papa, Veronica Redini, Valeria Siniscalchi, Antropologia delle imprese: Lavoro, reti, merci, Roma, Carocci, 2021, pp. 220
Shattered Dreams and the Return Home
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Bangladeshi migrants have returned home, while many others are about to be repatriated. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with Bangladeshi migrants who returned from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, this article analyzes the experiences of Bangladeshi laborers overseas during the pandemic to develop a better understanding of why these migrants returned to their home country. The main r…
Locating labour conflict and its organising forms in contemporary times
The following article aims to provide a conceptually rooted introduction to the articles in the internationally coordinated themed collection on Labour Conflict, Class and Collective Organization, an initiative which has involved four journals focusing on labour studies from different geographical angles and academic traditions: Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR); Global Labour Journal (GLJ); Partecipazione e Conflitto (PACO); and Revist…
Constructing a transnational childcare bricolage
Research on the childcare arrangements of migrant families has primarily focused on transnational childcare practices or childcare-work reconciliation in the host society, without paying appropriate attention to the dynamic and complex negotiation processes that underlie mobility-childcare coordination. This study proposes the concept of transnational childcare bricolage to explore how Chinese migrant families in Italy mobilize and (re)assemble t…
Transnational social fields of Italian Bangladeshis in Europe and beyond
In view of the growing onward migration and multisited transnationalism among naturalized EU citizens, this article seeks to advance the current understanding of transnational social fields, cataloguing the complex interplays of migrants' ways of being, belonging, and in‐betweenness across different places and spaces. Drawing on multisited qualitative research with Italian Bangladeshis in Italy and the United Kingdom, the paper presents how their…
Constructing Mobilities
Posted work is often framed as a business model based on social dumping. Widespread regulatory evasion is imputed to regulation's opacity, firms' predatory practices and trade unions' inability to organise posted workers. Isolation and precariousness channel posted workers' agency into individualised reworking or exit strategies. These perspectives, however insightful, focus either on formal regulations, enforcement actors or host countries' inst…
All of us or none migrant organizing in an era of deportation and dispossession
Navigating cross-border labour mobility and employment security in European shipbuilding
This article investigates how cross-border mobility in the European shipbuilding industry affected the employment security of workers on standard and non-standard contracts in sending and receiving countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws on qualitative findings from Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland and Romania, where shipbuilding production is integrated into transnational networks, leading to high cross-border mobility. Despite restrictio…
Bangladeshi workers on the edge of the labour regime in Italian Fincantieri shipyards
Based on ethnographic research and interviews conducted over 2 years (2021–2023), mainly with Bangladeshi workers, community leaders, local NGO staff and trade union representatives in two Italian shipyards in Fincantieri, this paper focuses on the interrelations of labour process, social reproduction and migration regime. Our study analyses how the articulations of these three spheres in a specific locality shape social relations within and outs…
Accommodation for valorization
The article examines the relationship between forms of worker accommodation and the labour process, aiming to identify the settings in which work is influenced by the ways workers are accommodated. Drawing on a range of case studies, we use secondary analysis to propose a typology of differentiated links between the two spheres. Acceleration in commodity circulation reshapes both the temporal organization of work and the spatial organization of p…
Living at work
There is no stable, standard or typical relationship between work and home under global capitalism. Rather we witness shuffling similar cards in new circumstances, with changing forms of accommodation-work arrangements that organize the relation between labour and dwelling, shaping how labour is recruited, fixed, reproduced and valorized. These arrangements bring production and social reproduction into a shifting and often tense unity, making vis…
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