Publications

• Murgia, A. (ed.) (2025) Hybrid Labour. Measuring, Classifying, and Representing Workers at the Boundaries of Employment and Self-employment, Routledge [final volume of the ERC project SHARE].
• Mezihorák, P., & Murgia, A. (2025, Online First) Representing and organising the solo self-employed in Europe: The emergence of a ‘relational representation’ from the combination of prefigurative and contentious politics, Organization.
• Mondon-Navazo, M. & Murgia, A. (2025, Online First) ‘It’s labour exploitation, but fortunately there is a lot of solidarity’. A qualitative case study with cleaning platform workers in Berlin, Globalizations.
• Armano, E., Leonardi, D., & Murgia, A. (2025) Algorithmic Management in Food Delivery Platforms: Between Digital Neo-Taylorism and Enhanced Subjectivity. In E. Armano (ed.) (2025) Inquiry and Co-Research Today. Contemporary Practices and Perspectives. Teseo.
• Bagnardi, F., Digennaro, P., Mezihorak, P., & Murgia, A. (2025) La rappresentanza collettiva del solo self-employment. Un’analisi socio-giuridica. In F. Martelloni, V. Nuzzo (eds.) Il lavoro autonomo come campo del diritto del lavoro. Editoriale Scientifica.
• Borghi, P., & Murgia, A. (2025) Organising Migrant Platform Workers in London: The Case of IWGB. In F. Della Puppa, D. Dhar, N. Montagna (eds.) Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy. Dynamics of Virtual Work, Palgrave Mcmillan.
• Bottalico, A., Carini, G., Cavani, M., & Murgia, A. (2025) L’organizzazione collettiva di freelance. L’altra politica di Redacta. In L. Alteri, S. Busso, G. Piazza, L. Raffini (eds.) L’altra politica. La partecipazione tra movimenti sociali e attivismo civico nei vecchi e nuovi conflitti, McGraw-Hill.
• Bozzon, R., Martinelli, F., & Murgia, A. (2025) Is there a European ‘Great Resignation’? The case of technicians in the entertainment sector in Italy. Sociologia del lavoro, 171, 165-185.
• Peticca-Harris, A., Murgia, A., Alberti, G., & Ivancheva, M. (2025) Intersectionality and precarious subjectivities: Within and beyond labour and organisational perspectives. Organization, 32(7), 933-953.
• Piro, V., & Murgia, A. (2025) Dissenting and innovating: Freelancers’ emerging forms of organising in the Netherlands, Current Sociology, 73(3), 454-474.
• Borghi, P., & Murgia, A. (2024) Beyond Borders: Trans-organisational and Trans-national Alliances Among Gig Workers in the UK and Italy, Journal of Industrial Relations, 66(3), 410-433.
• Bottalico, A., Murgia, A. (2024) “We Have Two Engines, and We Must Keep Them Both Running”: The Combination of Institutional and Symbolic Resources in the “Socio-Emotional Organizing” of Solo Self-Employed Workers, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 53(5), 689-720.
• Mezihorak, P., & Murgia, A. (2024) From resentment to deconstruction: Whistleblowing as a politico-legal tool of labour law enforcement, Economic and Industrial Democracy, 45(2), 511-529.
• Mezihorak, P., & Murgia, A. (2024) The collective representation of solo self-employed workers in Europe as an outcome of relations between traditional and new collective actors. A focus on the Netherlands, Italy, and Slovakia. In W. Conen, E. Reuter (eds.) Research Handbook on Self-Employment and Public Policy. Cheltenham: Elgar.
• Mondon-Navazo, M., & Murgia, A. (2024) From exception to pioneering: Insights on combining professional autonomy and social rights from the Syndicat National des Artistes Plasticien·nes, Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales, 42(1), 73-87.  
• Mondon-Navazo, M., Murgia, A., & de Heusch, S. (2024) Re-articulating Autonomy and Solidarity. The Case of Smart: The Largest European Network of Freelance Cooperatives, Partecipazione e Conflitto, 17(1), 210-228.
• Carollo, L., Dorigatti, L., Murgia, A., Parker, S., & Steger, T. (2023) Special Issue ‘Still in Search of Organizational Democracy: Exploring New Opportunities and Constraints’ Studi Organizzativi, 2, 7-23.
• Armano, E., Morini, C., & Murgia, A. (2023) Pour une ontologie précaire. Une approche orientée vers la subjectivité, Les Cahiers du GRM, 21.
• Armano, E., Leonardi, D., Murgia, A. (2023) Algorithmic management nelle piattaforme di food delivery: tra neo-taylorismo digitale e soggettività messa a valore, in M. Pirone (ed.) Ultimo miglio. Lavoro di piattaforma e conflitti urbani, Milano, Feltrinelli, pp. 97-111.
• Borghi, P. (2023) The promises of the sharing economy and the dark side of platform capitalism. Challenges and opportunities for workers’ representation, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 64(2), 397-408.
• Bottalico. A. (2023) On hybrid labour trajectories. A conversation with Sergio Bologna, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 64(2), 375-396.
• Bozzon, R. (2023) To what extent are the self-employed satisfied? A focus on involuntariness and forms of dependency in Europe, Sociologia del Lavoro, 165, 201-223.
• Digennaro, P. (2023) La pandemia de COVID-19, sus efectos en los sistemas laborales y jurídicos y, en particular, en el caso de Italia [The COVID-19 pandemic, its effects on labour and legal systems and, in particular, on the case of Italy], in L. Mendoza (ed.) Derecho del trabajo: actualidad y proyección. Ensayos desde la pospandemia, Asociación Civil Derecho y Sociedad.
• Mezihorak, P., Murgia, A., Borghi, P., & Mondon-Navazo, M. (2023) Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations. Work, Employment and Society, 37(4), 1013-1031.
• Piro, V., Murgia, A., & Azaïs, C. (2023) Hybrid areas of labour. Challenging traditional dichotomies to represent work, workers, and working trajectories, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 64(2), 165-182.
• Pitts, F.H., Borghi, P., & Murgia, A. (2023) Organising the self-employed: combining community unionism coworking and cooperativism across contexts, Open Research Europe, 3, 80. 
• Armano, E., Leonardi, D., Murgia, A. (2022) Algorithmic Management in Food Delivery Platforms: Between Digital Neo-Taylorism and Enhanced Subjectivity. In E. Risi, M. Briziarelli, E. Armano (eds.) Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities. Westminster University Press, Critical Digital and Social Media Studies bookseries.
• Armano, E., Morini, C., & Murgia, A. (2022) Conceptualising Precariousness. A Subject-oriented Approach, in J. Choonara et al. (eds.) Faces of Precarity. Critical Approaches to Precarity: Work, Subjectivities and Movements, Bristol University Press.
• Borghi, P., & Murgia, A. (2022) Struggling for alternative social imaginaries. A focus on Italian organisations representing food delivery platform workers. Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa, 15(2), 279-303.
• Bottalico, A., & Murgia, A. (2022) Posizionamenti liminali tra autonomia e dipendenza. Il caso del settore bancario e assicurativo, Studi organizzativi, 2, 35-69.
• Bozzon, R., & Murgia, A. (2022) Independent or Dependent? European Labour Statistics and Their (In)ability to Identify Forms of Dependency in Self-employment. Social Indicators Research, 160(1), 199-226.
• Bozzon, R., & Murgia, A. (2022) Subjective work-family conflicts: the challenge of studying self-employed workers. In S. Bertolini, B. Poggio (eds.) Research Handbook on Work–Life Balance Emerging Issues and Methodological Challenges. Cheltenham: Elgar.
• Choonara, J., Murgia, A., & do Carmo, R. (eds.) (2022) Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Precarity and Precariousness, in J. Choonara et al. (eds.) Faces of Precarity. Critical Perspectives on Work, Subjectivities and Struggles, Bristol University Press.
• Choonara, J., Murgia, A., & do Carmo, R. (eds.) (2022) Afterword: A Pandemic of Precarity, in J. Choonara et al. (eds.) Faces of Precarity. Critical Perspectives on Work, Subjectivities and Struggles, Bristol University Press.
• Digennaro P. (2022), The Effects of Neoliberalism in European Labour Law: The meaning of labour and the need for a different constitutional compromise. European Labour Law Journal, 13(2), 249-272.
• Fleischmann, A., Holck, L., Liu, H., Muhr, S. L., & Murgia, A. (2022) Organizing solidarity in difference: Challenges, achievements, and emerging imaginaries. Organization, 29(2), 233–246.
• Mondon-Navazo, M., Murgia, A., Borghi, P., & Mezihorak, P. (2022) In search for alternatives for individualised workers: a comparative study of freelance organisations. Organization, 29(4), 736–756.
• Bigi, M., Clouet, H., Mondon-Navazo, M., Noûs, C. (2021) Des conditions d’enquête aux conditions d’emploi. Le travail de sociologue en temps de confinement. Mondes du Travail, 26, 83-98.
• Borghi, P. (2021) Self-employed and non-standard workforce collective identities in Italy and the United Kingdom: A comparative perspective on discourses of new collective actors. Social Policies, 8(1), 99-118.
• Borghi, P., Murgia, A., Mondon-Navazo, M., & Mezihorak, P. (2021) Mind the gap between discourses and practices: Platform workers’ representation in France and Italy. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 27(4), 425-443.
• Bozzon, R. (2021) Insicurezza lavorativa e transizioni familiari. Generi e generazioni a confronto. Milano: Ledizioni
• Bozzon, R., & Murgia, A. (2021) Work-Family Conflict in Europe. A focus on the Heterogeneity of Self-employment, Community, Work & Family, 24(1), 93-113.
• Cozza, M., Gherardi, S., Graziano, V., Johansson, J., Mondon-Navazo, M., Murgia, A., & Trogal, K. (2021) Covid-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices, Gender, Work & Organization, 28(1), 190-208.
• Murgia, A., & Pulignano, V. (2021) Neither precarious nor entrepreneur: The subjective experience of hybrid self-employed workers, Economic and Industrial Democracy, 42(4), 1351-1377.
• Pais, I., Borghi, P., Murgia, A. (2021) High-skilled platform jobs in Europe: Trends, quality of work and emerging challenges. Sociologia del lavoro, 160, 203-223.
• Armano, E., Leonardi, D., & Murgia, A. (2020) L’ambivalenza della connettività dentro la macchina digitale. Una conricerca su soggettività e resistenza nel lavoro di piattaforma. In L’enigma del valore. Il digital labour e la nuova rivoluzione tecnologica. I libri di Effimera #03.
• Borghi, P. (2020) I nuovi professionisti indipendenti tra deficit di tutele e rappresentanza emergente. In Mingione, E. (ed). Lavoro: la grande trasformazione. L’impatto sociale del cambiamento del lavoro tra evoluzioni storiche e prospettive globali. Milano: Feltrinelli.
• Bozzon R. (2020) Il conflitto lavoro-famiglia nelle aree ibride del lavoro. Il caso del lavoro autonomo in Europa,  in Coppola M. M., Donà A., Poggio B., Tuselli A (eds). Genere e r-esistenze in movimento, soggettività, azioni, prospettive, Università di Trento editore.
• Digennaro, P. (2020) Subordination or subjection? A study about the dividing line between subordinate work and self-employment in six European legal systems, Labour & Law Issues, 6(1), doi: 10.6092/issn.2421 – 2695/11254.
• Murgia, A., Bozzon, R., Digennaro, P., Mezihorak, P., Mondon-Navazo, M., & Borghi, P. (2020) Hybrid Areas of Work between Employment and Self-employment: Emerging Challenges and Future Research Directions, Frontiers in Sociology, Specialty Section: Work, Employment and Organizations, 4, 86. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2019.00086.
• Murgia, A., & de Heusch, S. (2020) ‘It started with the artists and now it concerns everyone’: The case of Smart, a cooperative of ‘salaried autonomous workers’. In S. Taylor & S. Luckman (eds.) Pathways into Creative Working Lives. London: Palgrave.
• Borghi, P., & Murgia, A. (2019) Between Precariousness and Freedom: The Ambivalent Condition of Independent Professionals in Italy In W. Conen & J. Schippers (eds.) Self-Employment as Precarious Work: a European perspective. Cheltenham: Elgar.