2023-09-09 16:09:31
Work has always been the fulcrum of his studies, his analyses, his proposals, his battles: the work sociologist Domenico De Masi passed away at the age of 85, with two marriages and two daughters born to the first marriage, from Molise from Rotello, a small village of just a thousand souls in the province of Campobasso, left to first attend classical high school in Caserta, then university in Perugia where he graduated in Law with a thesis on the History of Law. But Sociology has always been at the center of his activity, since his days as a researcher and collaborator of the magazine ‘Nord e Sud’.
In Milan, he worked at the CMF of the IRI group and obtained recognition from the then EEC, the European Economic Community which preceded today’s EU. As a teacher, he taught Sociology first at the Federico II University of Naples, then in Sassari, at the Orientale always in the Neapolitan capital and finally at the ‘Sapienza’ in Rome, where he became dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences.
In more recent times, he has been close to the requests proposed by the 5 Star Movement founded by Beppe Grillo, a staunch defender of the provision that led to the establishment of the citizen’s income and, lastly, in relation to the pandemic caused by Covid, a convinced supporter of a progressive expansion of the audience of ‘smart working’ or so-called ‘agile working’, dedicating its latest publication to the topic, entitled ‘The revolution of intelligent work’.
(by Enzo Bonaiuto)
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