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 collectiverepresentation of contingent workers? 1Sofía Pérez de Guzmán, Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio and Ivana PaisPART I NEW DEMANDS AND ASPIRATIONS FOREMERGING LABOUR REALITIES AND IDENTITIES2 Alternative and contingent work in Italy and Spain:a statistical approach 20Anna Soru3 Contingent workers’ expectations for a collective voice:between individualism and the need for representation 37Sofía Pérez de GuzmánPART II ENHANCING SOCIAL PROTECTION FORINTERMITTENT WORK4 Doc servizi: how the cooperative model can support themusic industry 55Anna Mori5 Smart Ibérica business impulse cooperative: ‘not justa means of invoicing for your work’ 75Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio and Lucía del Moral-Espín6 Humus Job: a collective voice for ethical work 95Cecilia ManzoPART III BUILDING SOLIDARITIES AMONGPLATFORM WORKERS7 Tu respuesta sindical YA: a new tool to meet the demandsof workers engaged through digital platforms 111Ester Ulloa-Unanue8 Collective strategies of resistance to the precarious labourconditions in the digital platform economy: the case ofRiders x Derechos 132Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio9 Consegne Etiche: the ethical platform for food delivery 155Davide Arcidiacono and Ivana PaisPART IV NEW MODELS OF PROTECTION ANDREPRESENTATION OF CONTINGENT WORKERS10 Towards new forms of economic and political action:from voice to entry 177Ivana Pais and Anna Mori11 Conclusion: contingent workers’ voice in SouthernEurope after Covid-19 197Ivana Pais, Sofía Pérez de Guzmán and Marcela Iglesias-OnofrioIndex

‘Contingent Workers’ Voice in Southern Europe presents new insights into the growing world of contingent work, which is particularly significant in Southern Europe. A must read for everybody looking for inspiring cases of collective representation of platform workers and freelancers as well as conceptual tools for analyzing new forms of representation and social dialogue among contingent workers.’