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Overcoming precarity in the gig economy through solidarity: a study of successful organising practices of subcontracted migrant workers

通过团结克服零工经济中的不稳定：分包农民工成功组织实践的研究

基本信息

批准号：
ES/W005751/1
负责人：
Gabriella Cioce
金额：
$ 11.58万
依托单位：
University of Nottingham
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW005751%2F1
关键词：
Overcoming precarity gig economy through

项目摘要

The International Labour Organization estimates that 164 million migrant workers in high-income countries are paid substantially less (e.g., -30% in Italy) than native workers and experience multiple forms of injustice beyond the workplace (ILO, 2018; 2020). The existing literature on migrant workers and union organising tend to overlook these workers' own resistive initiatives and focus instead on mainstream trade unions' attempts to organise them (e.g., Kelly, 1998; McAlevey, 2016). By contrast, my PhD Thesis showed that subcontracted migrant workers could organise effectively despite being confined to precarious, insecure jobs within the gig-economy (e.g., warehousing and parcel delivery). Migrant workers can limit their precarity and obtain significant victories that include material and subjective gains by organizing within independent (Pero', 2019) labour and community organisations. By grounding the analysis in migrant workers' views and experiences, my PhD provides innovative and detail-rich insights that enhance the understanding of how migrant workers - who are often considered unorganisable - can develop effective informal resistive initiatives, solidarity practices and obtain material concession and more dignified treatment at work, particularly in the gig economy. This Fellowship will allow me to rework and transfer my evidence-based research to significantly wider audiences interested in Industrial Relations and Sociology of Work, Social Movements, Migration and Ethnic Studies and Sociology. It will contribute to practice of labour, civic and community organisations as well as policymakers concerned with social inequalities by analytically describing concrete experiences that help them develop better support for precarious migrant workers. This Fellowship's aims have been carefully designed to allow me to become an international researcher and develop a transnational bottom-up approach to study migrant workers' collective initiatives:1) to establish a track-record of high-quality publications through the production of two articles in leading scientific journals ('Human Relations' and 'Work, Employment and Society') and a monograph proposal for Cornell University Press, an internationally renowned North American publisher in the fields of Labour Studies and Sociology of Work. 2) to present findings to two international conferences (ILPC 2022; BUIRA 2022) to extend my existing international network, develop collaborations and disseminate my research;3) to communicate my research findings to a broader audience by organising an online seminar with the Italian independent union with whom I conducted my PhD study (S.I. Cobas), producing, translating (English, Italian, Spanish, French, Arabic) and sharing a report on my findings with S.I. Cobas and other independent and international labour and community organisations (e.g. ILO, ADL Cobas; ILWU; Coordinamento Migranti); to develop a blog and two-online workshops for knowledge and practice exchange with policymakers (Labour Inspectorate and Immigration Observatory of Bologna, Volta Think-Tank, CGIL) and international labour, civic organisations (ILWU, Unite, IWGB, UVW, Migrants' Organise). 4) to conduct limited research (N=15 semi-structured interviews with S.I. Cobas, United Voices of the World and Independent Workers of Great Britain) on challenges and opportunities in negotiating with multinational employers to initiate transnational bottom-up research on migrant workers and independent unions' joint initiatives (article to be submitted to Work, Employment and Society, see objective 1);5) to expand my skills in "Policy Impact", "Social Media for Engagement" and grant proposal development through training and support provided by the University of Nottingham and the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS);6) to submit a funding proposal to the ESRC Principal Grant Investigator to conduct comparative research on precarious migrant workers' mobilisations in Europe

据国际劳工组织估计，高收入国家有1.64亿移徙工人的工资低得多（例如，- 意大利的30%），并且在工作场所之外经历多种形式的不公正（ILO，2018; 2020）。现有的关于移民工人和工会组织的文献往往忽视了这些工人自己的抵抗倡议，而把重点放在主流工会组织他们的尝试上（例如，Kelly，1998; McAlevey，2016）。相比之下，我的博士论文表明，分包的移民工人可以有效地组织起来，尽管他们被限制在零工经济中不稳定、不安全的工作中（例如，仓储和包裹递送）。移民工人可以限制他们的不稳定性，并通过在独立的劳工和社区组织中组织起来，获得包括物质和主观收益在内的重大胜利（佩罗，2019年）。通过对移民工人的观点和经验进行分析，我的博士学位提供了创新和细节丰富的见解，增强了对移民工人-通常被认为是无组织的-如何制定有效的非正式抵抗举措，团结做法，并在工作中获得物质让步和更有尊严的待遇的理解，特别是在零工经济中。这项奖学金将使我能够重新设计并将我的循证研究转移给对劳资关系和工作社会学，社会运动，移民和种族研究以及社会学感兴趣的更广泛的受众。它将有助于劳动，公民和社区组织以及政策制定者关注社会不平等的做法，通过分析描述具体的经验，帮助他们更好地支持不稳定的移民工人。这个奖学金的目标是经过精心设计的，使我能够成为一名国际研究人员，并发展一种跨国的自下而上的方法来研究移民工人的集体倡议：1）通过在领先的科学期刊（“人类关系”和“工作，就业和社会”）上发表两篇文章，并为康奈尔大学出版社（一家在劳动研究和工作社会学领域享有国际声誉的北美出版商）撰写一本专著，建立高质量出版物的跟踪记录。2)将研究结果提交给两个国际会议（ILPC 2022; BUIRA 2022），以扩展我现有的国际网络，发展合作并传播我的研究;3）通过与意大利独立工会组织在线研讨会，将我的研究结果传达给更广泛的受众，我与他们一起进行了我的博士研究（S.I. Cobas），制作，翻译（英语，意大利语，西班牙语，法语，阿拉伯语）并与S.I.分享我的调查结果报告。Cobas和其他独立和国际劳工和社区组织（例如劳工组织、ADL Cobas、ILWU、Coordinamento Migranti）;开发一个博客和两个在线讲习班，以便与决策者（博洛尼亚劳动监察局和移民观察站、Volta智囊团、CGIL）和国际劳工、公民组织（ILWU、Unite、IWGB、UVW、移民组织）交流知识和做法。4)进行有限的研究（N=15个半结构化的采访S.I. Cobas、世界联合之声和大不列颠独立工人联合会），讨论与多国雇主谈判，发起关于移徙工人和独立工会联合倡议的跨国自下而上研究的挑战和机遇（文章将提交给工作，就业和社会，见目标1）; 5）通过诺丁汉大学和高等研究中心（CAS）提供的培训和支持，扩大我在“政策影响”，“社会媒体参与”和赠款提案开发方面的技能; 6）向ESRC首席研究员提交资助提案，对欧洲不稳定的移民工人动员进行比较研究