Diego Coletto
Biographic Data
| ID | 4098495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diego Coletto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diego |
| FAMILY NAME | Coletto |
| SIGNATURE | COLETTO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0275-1716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring labour transformations in platform work through the lens of informal work: A new framework of analysis
Purpose In this article, we aim to propose a new analytical framework for examining (in)formal work and its transformations induced by digital labour platforms (DLPs). The article also introduces the special issue on the entrenchment between DLPs and informal work. Design/methodology/approach We reconstruct the key theoretical frameworks and concepts used in recent research addressing precarization, casualization and informalization effects of DL…
A 'Better Life for All in Bricks and Mortar: The Spatial Rationalities of Container Urbanism in Accra
Alternative and often disruptive urban processes in the Global South, such as container urbanism, are gradually pushing urban planning institutions towards the margins of urban governance and transformation. Understanding how urban institutional actors perceive and respond to these emerging processes is thus crucial for unravelling the rationalities that actively transform the spatial configuration of cities. Drawing on the concept of spatial rat…
Street‐level bureaucrats' discretion between individual and institutional factors: The analysis of the minimum income policy implementation in two Italian regions
The article provides and empirically tests an analytical model that considers the relationship between the discretionary power of street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) and the institutional and organisational structures at meso and macro levels. The proposal maintains a bottom‐up perspective in the analysis of discretionary practices; at the same time, it highlights the relevance of multilevel governance systems as institutional spaces in opening and c…
Digital Labour Platforms in the Italian Domestic Sector: Approaching (In)Formalisation Processes from the Other Way Round
In this exploratory study, we investigate the effects of digital labour platforms (DLPs) on cleaning workers. The prevalence of informality in this sector leads us to suggest analysing workers' experiences by combining the literature on DLPs with that on the informal economy. Through in-depth interviews with cleaners in Milan and Rome, as well as DLP representatives, the article highlights on one hand, how DLPs affect informal workers and their c…
Introduction to the special section: When migrants produce the city: Everyday negotiations of urban space / Introduction de la section spéciale : Quand les migrants produisent la ville : Négociations …
Street vendors in Lima in the time of Covid‐19: Guilty or oppressed
Key Messages For many informal workers—including street vendors—staying at home and stopping working during the pandemic cannot be considered feasible options for many reasons. Analyzing informal street vending activities as a homogeneous phenomenon risks provoking misleading interpretations of street vendors solely as victims or as irresponsible people. Recognizing there is heterogeneity in street vending helps to illuminate the different social…
Informal Economy
The informal economy is huge: recent estimates have confirmed its importance in terms of employment and gross domestic product in many countries in the Global North and South. Over the years many attempts have been made to define and explain the informal economy. While the past approaches were essentially based on dichotomies, in recent years attention has shifted to the continuum between formal and informal economy and to informality's segmentat…
Before Landing: How Do New European Emigrants Prepare Their Departure and Imagine Their Destinations
In migration studies, the preparation for the departure of people who decide to migrate has seldom been addressed as a distinct topic. This article aims at investigating how European migrants who moved or plan to move to another European country prepare their departure. It analyses stories of migrants who move from Italy, Spain, Romania, and Bulgaria. More specifically, attention is focused on departure preparation in order to investigate what mi…
Activation policies in action: Unemployed people and public officers in face of the economic crisis
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the process that occurs within public employment offices (PEOs) and its consequences for unemployed people. Specifically, it analysed some practices needed to implement activation programmes developed in some PEO in Lombardy (Italy) and the role of front-line officers, promoting a dialogue between the literature on activation policies on one hand and the literature on street-level bureaucracy on …
Waste pickers in the informal economy of the Global South: Included or excluded
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the role and practices of informal waste pickers and the implications for waste management policy in urban contexts of the Global South. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative case studies were used, including interviews, observations and document analyses. The authors compared informal waste management in two cities of the Global South: Accra (Ghana) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). Findin…
Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Book Review| May 01 2016 Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro. McCann, Bryan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014xi + 249 pp., $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Diego Coletto Diego Coletto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (2): 111–113. https://doi.…
The Informal Economy and Employment in Brazil: Latin America, Modernization, and Social Changes
The informal economy did not disappear, nor did it decrease. Despite early predictions of its eventual demise, it has not only grown worldwide, but also emerged in new forms and unexpected places. This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the Author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex …
Waste pickers in the informal economy of the Global South: Included or excluded
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the role and practices of informal waste pickers and the implications for waste management policy in urban contexts of the Global South. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative case studies were used, including interviews, observations and document analyses. The authors compared informal waste management in two cities of the Global South: Accra (Ghana) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). Findin…
Digital Labour Platforms in the Italian Domestic Sector: Approaching (In)Formalisation Processes from the Other Way Round
In this exploratory study, we investigate the effects of digital labour platforms (DLPs) on cleaning workers. The prevalence of informality in this sector leads us to suggest analysing workers' experiences by combining the literature on DLPs with that on the informal economy. Through in-depth interviews with cleaners in Milan and Rome, as well as DLP representatives, the article highlights on one hand, how DLPs affect informal workers and their c…
Street vendors in Lima in the time of Covid‐19: Guilty or oppressed
Key Messages For many informal workers—including street vendors—staying at home and stopping working during the pandemic cannot be considered feasible options for many reasons. Analyzing informal street vending activities as a homogeneous phenomenon risks provoking misleading interpretations of street vendors solely as victims or as irresponsible people. Recognizing there is heterogeneity in street vending helps to illuminate the different social…
Activation policies in action: Unemployed people and public officers in face of the economic crisis
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the process that occurs within public employment offices (PEOs) and its consequences for unemployed people. Specifically, it analysed some practices needed to implement activation programmes developed in some PEO in Lombardy (Italy) and the role of front-line officers, promoting a dialogue between the literature on activation policies on one hand and the literature on street-level bureaucracy on …
Street‐level bureaucrats' discretion between individual and institutional factors: The analysis of the minimum income policy implementation in two Italian regions
The article provides and empirically tests an analytical model that considers the relationship between the discretionary power of street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) and the institutional and organisational structures at meso and macro levels. The proposal maintains a bottom‐up perspective in the analysis of discretionary practices; at the same time, it highlights the relevance of multilevel governance systems as institutional spaces in opening and c…
Before Landing: How Do New European Emigrants Prepare Their Departure and Imagine Their Destinations
In migration studies, the preparation for the departure of people who decide to migrate has seldom been addressed as a distinct topic. This article aims at investigating how European migrants who moved or plan to move to another European country prepare their departure. It analyses stories of migrants who move from Italy, Spain, Romania, and Bulgaria. More specifically, attention is focused on departure preparation in order to investigate what mi…
A 'Better Life for All in Bricks and Mortar: The Spatial Rationalities of Container Urbanism in Accra
Alternative and often disruptive urban processes in the Global South, such as container urbanism, are gradually pushing urban planning institutions towards the margins of urban governance and transformation. Understanding how urban institutional actors perceive and respond to these emerging processes is thus crucial for unravelling the rationalities that actively transform the spatial configuration of cities. Drawing on the concept of spatial rat…
The Informal Economy and Employment in Brazil: Latin America, Modernization, and Social Changes
The informal economy did not disappear, nor did it decrease. Despite early predictions of its eventual demise, it has not only grown worldwide, but also emerged in new forms and unexpected places. This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the Author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex …
Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Book Review| May 01 2016 Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro. McCann, Bryan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014xi + 249 pp., $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Diego Coletto Diego Coletto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (2): 111–113. https://doi.…
Waste pickers in the informal economy of the Global South: Included or excluded
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the role and practices of informal waste pickers and the implications for waste management policy in urban contexts of the Global South. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative case studies were used, including interviews, observations and document analyses. The authors compared informal waste management in two cities of the Global South: Accra (Ghana) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). Findin…
Activation policies in action: Unemployed people and public officers in face of the economic crisis
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the process that occurs within public employment offices (PEOs) and its consequences for unemployed people. Specifically, it analysed some practices needed to implement activation programmes developed in some PEO in Lombardy (Italy) and the role of front-line officers, promoting a dialogue between the literature on activation policies on one hand and the literature on street-level bureaucracy on …
Informal Economy
The informal economy is huge: recent estimates have confirmed its importance in terms of employment and gross domestic product in many countries in the Global North and South. Over the years many attempts have been made to define and explain the informal economy. While the past approaches were essentially based on dichotomies, in recent years attention has shifted to the continuum between formal and informal economy and to informality's segmentat…
Before Landing: How Do New European Emigrants Prepare Their Departure and Imagine Their Destinations
In migration studies, the preparation for the departure of people who decide to migrate has seldom been addressed as a distinct topic. This article aims at investigating how European migrants who moved or plan to move to another European country prepare their departure. It analyses stories of migrants who move from Italy, Spain, Romania, and Bulgaria. More specifically, attention is focused on departure preparation in order to investigate what mi…
Introduction to the special section: When migrants produce the city: Everyday negotiations of urban space / Introduction de la section spéciale : Quand les migrants produisent la ville : Négociations …
Street vendors in Lima in the time of Covid‐19: Guilty or oppressed
Key Messages For many informal workers—including street vendors—staying at home and stopping working during the pandemic cannot be considered feasible options for many reasons. Analyzing informal street vending activities as a homogeneous phenomenon risks provoking misleading interpretations of street vendors solely as victims or as irresponsible people. Recognizing there is heterogeneity in street vending helps to illuminate the different social…
Street‐level bureaucrats' discretion between individual and institutional factors: The analysis of the minimum income policy implementation in two Italian regions
The article provides and empirically tests an analytical model that considers the relationship between the discretionary power of street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) and the institutional and organisational structures at meso and macro levels. The proposal maintains a bottom‐up perspective in the analysis of discretionary practices; at the same time, it highlights the relevance of multilevel governance systems as institutional spaces in opening and c…
Digital Labour Platforms in the Italian Domestic Sector: Approaching (In)Formalisation Processes from the Other Way Round
In this exploratory study, we investigate the effects of digital labour platforms (DLPs) on cleaning workers. The prevalence of informality in this sector leads us to suggest analysing workers' experiences by combining the literature on DLPs with that on the informal economy. Through in-depth interviews with cleaners in Milan and Rome, as well as DLP representatives, the article highlights on one hand, how DLPs affect informal workers and their c…
A 'Better Life for All in Bricks and Mortar: The Spatial Rationalities of Container Urbanism in Accra
Alternative and often disruptive urban processes in the Global South, such as container urbanism, are gradually pushing urban planning institutions towards the margins of urban governance and transformation. Understanding how urban institutional actors perceive and respond to these emerging processes is thus crucial for unravelling the rationalities that actively transform the spatial configuration of cities. Drawing on the concept of spatial rat…
Exploring labour transformations in platform work through the lens of informal work: A new framework of analysis
Purpose In this article, we aim to propose a new analytical framework for examining (in)formal work and its transformations induced by digital labour platforms (DLPs). The article also introduces the special issue on the entrenchment between DLPs and informal work. Design/methodology/approach We reconstruct the key theoretical frameworks and concepts used in recent research addressing precarization, casualization and informalization effects of DL…
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