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Francesco Seghezzi

Francesco Seghezzi is President of ADAPT, Association for International and Comparative Studies in Labour and Industrial Relations and contract teacher at the University of Bergamo. His research topics include sociology of work and industrial relations with particular attention to the youth and territorial segment, and the relationship between work and technological innovation.

Graffiti of a worker breaking bricks, symbolising labour and resilience.

Populism’s Real Target in Europe Is Not the Elite — It Is the Worker

Francesco Seghezzi

Populist leaders promise to empower “the people” but systematically sideline the institutions through which workers actually exercise power.

Italy’s Minimum Wage Dilemma: Will EU Pressure Force a Policy Shift?

Guglielmo Meardi and Francesco Seghezzi

Despite EU moves, Italy resists a national minimum wage amid trade union scepticism.