Contingent Workers’ Voice in Southern Europe

Edited by Sofía Pérez de Guzmán, Professor of Sociology of Work, Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio, Professor of Sociology, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain and Ivana Pais, Professor of Economic Sociology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Contents:

1 Introduction: what is at stake regarding the collective
representation of contingent workers? 1
Sofía Pérez de Guzmán, Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio and Ivana Pais

PART I NEW DEMANDS AND ASPIRATIONS FOR
EMERGING LABOUR REALITIES AND IDENTITIES
2 Alternative and contingent work in Italy and Spain:
a statistical approach 20
Anna Soru
3 Contingent workers’ expectations for a collective voice:
between individualism and the need for representation 37
Sofía Pérez de Guzmán

PART II ENHANCING SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR
INTERMITTENT WORK
4 Doc servizi: how the cooperative model can support the
music industry 55
Anna Mori
5 Smart Ibérica business impulse cooperative: ‘not just
a means of invoicing for your work’ 75
Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio and Lucía del Moral-Espín
6 Humus Job: a collective voice for ethical work 95
Cecilia Manzo

PART III BUILDING SOLIDARITIES AMONG
PLATFORM WORKERS
7 Tu respuesta sindical YA: a new tool to meet the demands
of workers engaged through digital platforms 111
Ester Ulloa-Unanue
8 Collective strategies of resistance to the precarious labour
conditions in the digital platform economy: the case of
Riders x Derechos 132
Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio
9 Consegne Etiche: the ethical platform for food delivery 155
Davide Arcidiacono and Ivana Pais

PART IV NEW MODELS OF PROTECTION AND
REPRESENTATION OF CONTINGENT WORKERS
10 Towards new forms of economic and political action:
from voice to entry 177
Ivana Pais and Anna Mori
11 Conclusion: contingent workers’ voice in Southern
Europe after Covid-19 197
Ivana Pais, Sofía Pérez de Guzmán and Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio

Index