Category: Work conditions

This thematic area offers research, surveys and analyzes on the transformations of the labour market, the quality of work and working conditions at local, regional, national as well as at European level. From a methodological point of view, the implementation of the various research projects relating to this thematic area envisages both quantitative methods (data analysis and surveys) and qualitative methods (interviews, discussion groups and focus groups), also through national and international partnerships.

Work is constantly changing in its employment dimension, composition, form and organization, as well as in its subjective and collective recognition, its contractual and identity expression. This thematic area is designed to analyze these processes in order to turn them into knowledge useful for improving health and safety levels as well as the representativeness of trade unions.

The topics under study are:

Labour market;
Physical and psycho-social well-being;
Organization of work and working times;
Smart work, agile work and remote work;
Training and occupational profiles;
The subjective, identity, value and collective dimension of work.