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Innovazione tecnologica e organizzazione del lavoro: il ruolo del sindacato nel caso Lamborghini
Armanda Cetrulo and Margherita Russo
* PhD student candidate Istituto di Economia & Embeds, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.
** Dipartimento di Economia Marco Biagi, e Capp Universitą di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Abstract
| In recent years, discussion on technological change and the future of work has become central to policy and academic debates. However, the so-called «Industry 4.0» paradigm is rarely dropped within an in-depth analysis of the processes of work organization and interaction of the social actors within a productive organization. In this work, we propose a case study on the historical evolution of Lamborghini’s bargaining on some specific issues related to the introduction of new technologies, such as the work organization and the training of workers, through a detailed study of the document base already used in Russo et al. (2018, 2019) and several interviews to trade union representatives. Our analysis confirms the dual nature of the process of technological innovation, outcome of the negotiation between the ownership of the company and the workers, and underlines the need to look carefully at the role of industrial relations at the corporate level to understand |