The Italian Cultural Institute, the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University and the École des Sciences de la Gestion Université du Québec à Montréal, within the series of conferences dedicated to the topic “The culture of work in Italy. Changes in the Italian system of employment relations and their consequences”, are pleased to present the conference by Chiara Benassi “Flexibility and counter-flexibility: Italian trade union activities among atypical employees”.
Monday, October 7 2019, 6pm
Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
Armstrong Building, room 265
3420 Rue McTavish, Montreal
Conference held in English
More than half a century ago, the scholar M.O. Tobriner wrote perceptively: “(…) the labor movement of a country cannot be dissected in abstraction. It is as much a reflection of a nation’s culture and history as its art and literature; (…) the social anatomy of a culture is revealed by its component parts. A labor movement is at once an integral segment and reflection of the whole structure.” (“A Lawyer Looks at French and Italian Labor”, Labor Law Journal, 1953, vol. 4, no. 9 (September), p. 613. September). By moving just from this consideration, the conference program focuses on the complex issue of work and in particular on implementing policies, Mutation of law and the diversity of production environments in Italy.
Chiara Benassi is Lecturer at King’s College (London, UK) and a brilliant young scholar. She investigates how national and local institutions affect flexibility, training, and knowledge management. Her research has been published in outstanding international academic journals and compares the situation in Italy to that of Germany and other EU countries.