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      Where platforms meet infrastructures: digital platforms, urban resistance and the ambivalence of the city in the Italian case of Bologna

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            10.2307/j50010512
            workorgalaboglob
            Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation
            Pluto Journals
            1745-641X
            1745-6428
            1 January 2020
            : 14
            : 1 ( doiID: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.14.issue-1 )
            : 119-135
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            workorgalaboglob.14.1.0119
            10.13169/workorgalaboglob.14.1.0119
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            © Marco Marrone and Gianmarco Peterlongo, 2020

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            Sociology,Labor law,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics
            city governance,public action,gentrification,digital platforms,informal unionism,infrastructures,urban resistance,social movements,precarisation

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            1. The porticoes of Bologna have, since 2006, been listed in the UNESCO ‘tentative’ list available on its website. Accessed on January 18, 2020 from https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5010.

            2. Forlì airport (FRL) was definitively closed to commercial flights in March 2013.

            3. Statistics on tourism made by the Municipality of Bologna (May 2009). Accessed on January 10, 2020 from http://www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole.

            4. Report ‘Turismo nella città metropolitana di Bologna’ (November 2019). Accessed January 10, 2020 from http://inumeridibolognametropolitana.it/sites/inumeridibolognametropolitana.it/files/turismo/report_turismo_2018_cm_ed2019.pdf.

            5. Data retrieved from the Camera di Commercio official website (accessed on January 10, 2020): https://www.bo.camcom.gov.it/it/statistica-e-studi/home.

            6. Among the top 20 Airbnb Experiences in Bologna, 16 are related to the food and wine sector. https://www.airbnb.it/s/Bologna—BO/experiences (accessed March 10, 2020).

            7. ‘HousingBo’ is a permanent lab on student housing conditions in Bologna promoted by the University of Bologna and the local Municipality (November 2019). Results are available at (accessed January 10, 2020): http://www.fondazioneinnovazioneurbana.it/images/2019_HousingBO/2019_11_12_HOUSINGBO_Presentazione.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1TR0jgxp3WkLfRUG79aIJvrQZK5gZwhwas0rmVyjb3aQPFR2DoKRF_SD8.

            8. Results from CCIAA research on tourism and short-term rental platforms. Accessed on December 28, 2019 from https://www.ucer.camcom.it/comunicazione/notizie/pdf-2018/Abstract_Studio.pdf.

            9. As available in the website (accessed March 25, 2020): https://www.incredibol.net/cose-incredibol.

            10. The empirical data in this section come from six semi-structured interviews conducted with privileged observers: respondents were members of the Bologna City Council groups of Coalizione Civica (Civic Coalition), opposed to the local administration and closely linked to two different political groups: Pensare Urbano (PU) and the Riders Union Bologna (RUB), who were also interviewed for this article.

            11. In Italy, the Istruttoria Pubblica (Public Inquiry) is one of the tools used by municipalities to promote participation and to enhance the forms of consultation of inhabitants and citizens. In the case study the topic was that of house deprivation.

            12. On September 4 a public assembly was organised at the Montagnola Park to launch the political campaign of the Istruttoria.

            13. The agenda approved by the City Council. Accessed January 15, 2020 from: http://www.comune.bologna.it/media/files/odg_indirizzi_consiglio_comunale.pdf.

            14. The Councilor's speech is available online (accessed January 16, 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =ueYmEcd0SXs&fbclid=IwAR0Rt8aIGwX6Q46DSJ6XVMe_DFlR7ZMhFYxwu9uKCEcSuOEbnwcwA_0aOc8.

            15. Lavoretto - literally meaning ‘small job’ - is an Italian way of describing an occasional working opportunity taken up in order to collect a small income. An English equivalent may be a ‘gig’ or work ‘on the side’.

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