Rappresentare la flessibilizzazione del lavoro. Un’analisi critica a partire dall’archivio audiovisivo di Short On Work

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COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI

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Rappresentare la flessibilizzazione del lavoro. Un’analisi critica a partire dall’archivio audiovisivo di Short On Work

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Antonella Capalbi, Eleonora Costantini, Tommaso Fabbri, Serafino Negrelli, Giulia Piscitelli

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Vita e Pensiero

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10-2024

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10.26350/001200_000213

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0392-8667 (stampa) | 1827-7969 (digitale)

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The aim of this work is to critically examine the dimensions around which the process of flexibilisation of work has developed over time and to analyse the audiovisual forms in which it has been represented. Specifically, the analysis was carried out on the basis of 103 videos archived over the ten years of the project “Short on Work - International Context for Short Videos on Work”. The context is informed by a research question that guided its application and video selection process, making it a solid case study. After a brief reconnaissance of the multiple forms that flexible work has taken over time in advanced capitalist contexts, the theoretical frame of reference is defined in the wake of Cultural Studies and Visual Studies. Starting from a selection of nine videos considered representative of the different phases of the flexibilisation process, a number of relevant dimensions were identified for analysis, which were used in an inductive process to analyse the entire corpus of videos. The results of the analysis were discussed in terms of both the content represented by the videos and the form used to represent it. The results of the analysis point firstly to the fact that flexibilisation has been an ongoing process in a particular geopolitical context for about thirty years. This process has been socially accepted over time: even today, flexibility is first and foremost a way of life and not just a way of working. From this point of view, the grid used to analyse the short films captures the recurring dimensions in the processes of flexibilisation, which ‒ in the wake of Cultural Studies ‒ are represented in the videos as cultural products. At the same time, however, in the broader framework of Visual Studies, videos also become instruments of knowledge because they manage to fill these dimensions with individual biographies. In other words, videos make it possible to clearly analyse how the process is perceived in the first person by those who undergo it. The short films thus succeed in making visible, and therefore analysable, a precise point of view: that of the male and female workers. They are the protagonists of the videos analysed, and it is mainly through them that the consequences of the process of flexibilization studied are measured. From a methodological point of view, however, the process of analysis and the tools used have interesting potential both for analysing the same phenomenon in other geocultural contexts and for analysing other work-related issues that have found space in mainstream debate and representation.

Rappresentare la flessibilizzazione del lavoro. Un’analisi critica a partire dall’archivio audiovisivo di Short On Work by Antonella Capalbi, Eleonora Costantini, Tommaso Fabbri, Serafino Negrelli, Giulia Piscitelli is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

keywords

Visual Studies; Cultural Studies; work flexibilization; visual research methods

Biografia degli autori

Antonella Capalbi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena – antonella.capalbi@unimore.it
Eleonora Costantini, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena – eleonora.costantini@unimore.it
Tommaso Fabbri, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena – tommaso.fabbri@unimore.it
Serafino Negrelli, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano – serafino.negrelli@unimib.it
Giulia Piscitelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena – giulia.piscitelli@unimore.it

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