L’embeddedness strutturale degli imprenditori immigrati transnazionali a Milano

In recent years, the topic of cross-border businesses developed by immigrants (transnational entrepreneurship) has emerged as one of the most interesting areas of research in studies on immigrants and their economic activities. The article presents the case of Moroccan transnational businesses in Milan, investigating the role of structural embeddedness in shaping identification and seizing of business opportunities. The study shows that Moroccan entrepreneurial activities are simultaneously connected with several countries. In particular, Moroccan entrepreneurs strongly rely on their structural embeddedness in Morocco and Italy, and co-national group to identify and take advantage of opportunities for internationalising their business

Gender and Careers in Astrophysical Science

The hard recognition of women-scientists' role is a central issue for national and supra-national institutions and organizations. Despite the growing access of women in scientific fields of study, the female presence in scientific institutes and equal career opportunities are struggling to establish themselves. These institutes refer to a gendered organizational structure able to reproduce differences in status of women and men. Focusing on the astrophysical sector, the article summarizes the results of a qualitative research that explores the role that gender plays in career paths. In fact, social and cultural practices related to gender can be considered as interpretative keys through which investigate the process of stratification and mobility and the power relations in the workplace. Within organizations, the way in which women-scientists define themselves is the result of processes that interactively act on different levels and spheres of life, and are linked to social norms and representations related to gender roles. Only re-defining the relationships that women have established with the political and social order of the scientific environment gender equality can be achieved

Gender and Careers in Astrophysical Science

The hard recognition of women-scientists' role is a central issue for national and supra-national institutions and organizations. Despite the growing access of women in scientific fields of study, the female presence in scientific institutes and equal career opportunities are struggling to establish themselves. These institutes refer to a gendered organizational structure able to reproduce differences in status of women and men. Focusing on the astrophysical sector, the article summarizes the results of a qualitative research that explores the role that gender plays in career paths. In fact, social and cultural practices related to gender can be considered as interpretative keys through which investigate the process of stratification and mobility and the power relations in the workplace. Within organizations, the way in which women-scientists define themselves is the result of processes that interactively act on different levels and spheres of life, and are linked to social norms and representations related to gender roles. Only re-defining the relationships that women have established with the political and social order of the scientific environment gender equality can be achieved

Resistenze Precarie. Lavoratori universitari e capitalismo biocognitivo

Questo libro inserisce l’Università nel più vasto scenario di trasformazione del lavoro intellettuale. Un lavoro in cui relazioni, emozioni, passioni sono mobilitate e trascinate in una logica di mercificazione pervasiva. Frammentazione dei singoli interessi, de-sincronizzazione dei tempi di lavoro, denormazione delle garanzie, da un lato, richiami alla produttività, all’efficienza e all’innovazione continua, dall’altro lato, incastrano i lavoratori precari nelle “trappole” che caratterizzano oggi il capitalismo cognitivo. Sottrarsi a tale logica è davvero difficile, non soltanto a causa dei sofisticati meccanismi di “promessa” impastati di retoriche meritocratiche, ma anche perché il sistema di produzione si fonda sempre più sulle reti collaborative, le relazioni “agevoli”, la presunta valorizzazione delle “qualità superiori” del lavoratore, che in qualche modo sembra rispondere ai desideri di riconoscimento e stabilità ingigantiti dalla condizione precaria. Eppure anche l’adesione a questa logica non è scontata. Tracce di resistenza attraversano le biografie di chi a questo libro ha voluto collaborare partecipando a una serie di incontri centrati sulla narrazione di sé, divenute occasioni per una “autoanalisi” del lavoro universitario