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Valeria Pulignano

Valeria Pulignano is professor of sociology of work and industrial relations at the KU Leuven, where she heads a research group on employment relations and labour markets. Her research interests include comparative European industrial relations and labour markets.

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Why Reports of Sociology’s Public Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Valeria Pulignano and Paul Stewart

Sociology has not surrendered its public voice to philosophy. It has lost the illusion that it speaks from nowhere.

Industrial relations, work and climate change

Valeria Pulignano, Jane Parker and Bianca Luna Fabris

Addressing the contradiction between economic growth and green transitions requires rethinking industrial relations.

From ‘green growth’ to a ‘good life’

Nora Räthzel and Valeria Pulignano

The Green Deal assumes economic growth can be ‘decoupled’ from ecological damage. That’s wishful thinking.

The ‘freedom’ to work for nothing

Valeria Pulignano and Agnieszka Piasna

Irregular pay is one of the criticisms levelled at platform companies. But some of the time there is no pay at all.

Collective voice for platform workers: riders’ union struggles in Italy

Claudia Marà and Valeria Pulignano

Autonomous unions, allied with trade union confederations, have shown how collective bargaining can be won by the precariat which employers seek to fragment.

Including the precariat

Valeria Pulignano

The coronavirus crisis has highlighted how the welfare state of the future must include the growing mass of precarious labour, especially among youth.

Uncoordinated Decentralization In Collective Bargaining: Challenges And Effects

Valeria Pulignano

Uncoordinated decentralization in collective bargaining can allow companies to reach deals of their own with workers rather than being forced to comply with multi-employer industry-wide