29527 - History of Work and Social Relationships (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module the student will know the main methodologies for the study of the industrial age as regards the labour and social relations. He/she will be able to analyse the main changes occurring in the course of the industrial age, both from the point of view of the economic processes, and from that relating to labour relations, and lastly with regard to social relations. He/she will be able to deal with comparative analyses of diverse spatio-temporal contexts, referring in particular to the Euro-Atlantic area. He/she can evaluate the role of the historian in fostering a critical and scientific approach to themes of interest for the collectivity.

Course contents

This year’s course is subdivided into three parts.

The first, preparatory to the other two, deals with approaches, themes and contexts of the history of labour between global and local and, specifically: the history of labour and the global history of labour, gender and work between production and reproduction; the forms of free and non-free labour; mobile labour between migrations and forms of mobility, the body at work between health, environment and territory.

The second part of the course has a monographic nature and deals with the theme: precarity of labour and deindustrialisation in a historical perspective, and, specifically: economic crises, precarity of labour and deindustrialisation; the precarity of labour as a global historical phenomenon; deindustrialisation in a historical perspective between local and global; forms of resistance and mobilisation against deindustrialisation and precarity; a gendered glance at precarity and deindustrialisation.

The third part of the course proposes examples of applied history of labour between archives, public history and digital humanities, through the following seminars preparatory to the final talk given by the students on the chosen topics.

17 April (11 a.m. - 1 p.m.)

Fonti per la storia del lavoro: ricerche, prospettive e approcci a cura della SISLAV

Michele Nani (Ricercatore, Cnr Napoli), Manfredi Alberti (borsista, Università di Roma Tre), Stefano Bartolini (Responsabile Fondazione Valore Lavoro), Fabio Pomini (Laureando in Scienze storiche, Università di Padova)

3 May (1 p.m - 3 p.m.)

Lavoro, deindustrializzazione e patrimonio industriale tra archivi e percorsi di public history: il progetto Bologna Metalmeccanic@

Maura Grandi (Direttrice Museo del Patrimonio Industriale, Bologna) Antonio Campigotto (Responsabile Archivio Museo del Patrimonio industriale, Bologna) Michele Bulgarelli (Segretario Generale Fiom Bologna), Sandra Ognibene (Funzionaria, Fiom Bologna), Benedetto Fragnelli (Laureando in Scienze storiche, Università di Bologna)

7 May (1 p.m - 3 p.m.)

Biografie e archivi sindacali per la storia del lavoro: il progetto Biografie di sindacaliste emiliano-romagnole

Anna Salfi (Presidente Fondazione Argentina Bonetti Altobelli), Fiorella Prodi (Segreteria, CGIL Emilia-Romagna) Gabriella Dionigi (già Segreteria, SPI Emilia-Romagna), Tommaso Cerusici (Responsabile, Archivio storico Camera del Lavoro Reggio Emilia) Elisabetta Perazzo (Responsabile, Archivio Camera del Lavoro Bologna)

8 May (11 a.m. - 1 p.m.)

Impresa, lavoro e territorio tra esperienze museali e attività di valorizzazione: il progetto Archivio storico Ducati

Monica Passerini (Responsabile area Heritage, Fondazione Ducati), Livio Lodi (Curatore Museo Ducati), Brunella Argelli (Referente IBC Archivi, Istituto dei Beni artistici, culturali, naturali della Regione Emilia-Romagna)

The course starts on 19 March with the following schedule: Tuesdays 1.00pm-3.00pm, Wednesday 11.00 am - 1.00pm, Fridays 1.00pm-3.00pm

Readings/Bibliography

Group A:

Andreas Eckert, Global histories of work, De Gruyter Berlin, 2016.

Marcel Van Der Linden, Workers of the World, Brill, Amsterdam, 2008.

Christian De Vito (a cura di), Global labour history, Special Issue, “Workers of the World”, 1, 3, maggio 2013.

Karin Hofmeester, Marcel Van der Linden (a cura di), Handbook the global history of work, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2018.

Christian De Vito, Global labour history. La storia del lavoro al tempo della "globalizzazione, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2012.

Gruppo B:

Cristina Borderias, Manueal Martini (a cura di), Per una nuova storia del lavoro: genere, economie, soggetti, “Genesis”, 2, 2016.

Eileen Boris, Angelique Janssens, Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ehnicity, “International Review for Social History”, Supplemento, 1999.

Eileen Boris, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (a cura di), Intimate Labors: Care, Sex, and Domestic Work, Stanford University Press, 2010.

Giulio Ongaro, Giulia Bonazza (a cura di), Libertà e coercizione: il lavoro in una prospettiva di lungo periodo, New Digital Frontiers, Palermo, 2018.

Laura Cerasi (a cura di), Le libertà del lavoro. Storia, diritto, società, New Digital Frontiers, Palermo, 2015.

Alessandro Casellato, Gilda Zarrara (a cura di), Corpi al lavoro, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, Venezia 2015.

Michele Colucci, Michele Nani (a cura di), Lavoro mobile. Migranti, organizzazioni, conflitti (XVIII-XX secolo), New Digital Frontiers, Palermo, 2015.

Group C:

Marcel Van der Linden, Il lavoro come merce. Capitalismo e mercificazione del lavoro (a cura di Christian De Vito e Lorenzo D’Angelo), Mimesis, Milano, 2018.

Ariella Verrocchio, Luca Salmieri (a cura di), Di condizione precaria. Sguardi trasversali tra genere, lavoro e non lavoro, Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste 2015.

Sara Mosoetsa, Charles Tilly, Joel Stillermann (a cura di), Precarious Labor in Global Perspective, Special Issue, “International Labor and Working-Class History”, 89, 2016.

Aree deindustrializzate, Numero monografico, “Meridiana”, 85, 2016.

Steven High, Lachlan MacKinnon, Andrew Perchard (a cura di), The Deindustrialized World. Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places, UBC Press, Vancouver, 2018.

Bruno Ziglioli, “Sembrava nevicasse”. La Eternit di Casale Monferrato e la Fibronit di Broni: due comunità di fronte all’amianto, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2016.

Eloisa Betti, Precari e precarie. Una storia dell'Italia Repubblicana, Carocci, Roma, 2019.

Group D:

Raffaella Sarti, Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers, International Review of Social History”, 59, 2004, pp-25-60.

Stefano Petrungaro, The Fluid Boundaries of “Work”. Some Considerations regarding Concepts, Approaches, and South-Eastern Europe, “Südost-Forschungen”, 72, 2013, pp. 271-286.

Christian De Vito, Verso una microstoria translocale (micro-spatial history), “Quaderni Storici”, 3, 2015.

Angélique Janssens, “The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family? An Overview of the Debate, “International Review of Social History”, 42, 1997, pp. 1–24.

Eloisa Betti, Historicizing Precarious Work: Forty Years of Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, International Review of Social History”, vol. 63, 2018, pp. 273–319.

Marcel Van Der Linden, Workers of the World, Brill, Amsterdam, 2008 (chapters 1-2).

Teaching methods

The course will include a series of lectures held by the teacher and seminars that envisage the presence of outside guests, along with the course leader. The students will be expected to participate actively.

Assessment methods

For the attending students:

The test consists in an oral presentation on the chosen topic and a final short dissertation (minimum 25,000 – maximum 50,000 characters included bibliography) on the same subject, which will be sent by email to eloisa.betti2@unibo.it at least 15 days before the chosen exam date.

The assessment expressed out of thirty will consider the critical analytical skills based on sources and bibliography, the capacity to frame the specific topic in the historiographic context of reference, the appropriateness of the scientific language, and the discursive clarity.

For the non-attending students:

The test consists of an oral exam on three texts chosen from among those indicated in the bibliography (one for group A, one for group B, one for group C). The student can choose to replace the text from group A with the essays indicated in group D.

The evaluation will depend on the knowledge of the texts, the capacity to describe their contents clearly and aptly, the expressive and linguistic mastery.

For all the students (attending and non-attending)

The final mark of the integrated course "Formazioni sociali contemporanee" (Contemporary Social Formations) will consist of the synthesis of the final evaluation of the two modules (History of the Enterprise and Industry, History of Labour and Social Relations). The marks obtained in the two separate tests have no expiry date and are integrated to obtain the final exam mark.

Teaching tools

The teaching aids available will be a video-projector, Power Point presentations, other teaching materials including databases and digital resources.

Office hours

See the website of Eloisa Betti