This thesis is part of the strand of studies on street-level bureaucracy (SLB). The focus of the research is on labour inspectors’ discretion managing labour exploitation cases. The goal is to understand when work irregularities are labelled as “labour exploitation” by labour inspectors, adapting law and formal rule to specific cases. The purpose of the research is to answer the following questions: a) which institutional pressures influence the organizational field of workplace controls and with what consequences?; b) how is labour inspectors’ discretion manifested in their everyday practices? Does it have consequences in determining the severity of cases to be managed?; c) Why similar irregularities are processed in a different way? Through 9 months of participant observation in a local office of the National Labour Inspectorate and 30 interviews with vignette technique in Italy and in The Netherlands, we try to understand how labor inspectors use their discretionary power within the organizational field of the workplace control.

Quando è grave lo sfruttamento lavorativo? Un'analisi neo-istituzionalista sulla discrezionalità degli ispettori del lavoro

2020

Abstract

This thesis is part of the strand of studies on street-level bureaucracy (SLB). The focus of the research is on labour inspectors’ discretion managing labour exploitation cases. The goal is to understand when work irregularities are labelled as “labour exploitation” by labour inspectors, adapting law and formal rule to specific cases. The purpose of the research is to answer the following questions: a) which institutional pressures influence the organizational field of workplace controls and with what consequences?; b) how is labour inspectors’ discretion manifested in their everyday practices? Does it have consequences in determining the severity of cases to be managed?; c) Why similar irregularities are processed in a different way? Through 9 months of participant observation in a local office of the National Labour Inspectorate and 30 interviews with vignette technique in Italy and in The Netherlands, we try to understand how labor inspectors use their discretionary power within the organizational field of the workplace control.
16-mar-2020
Università degli Studi di Bologna
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