Francesca Coin, sociologist. She deals with work and inequalities. She has taught at several universities in Italy and abroad, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. She has a PhD from Georgia State University, USA, where she lived between the early 2000s and 2008. After a brief return to Italy, she moved to the UK where she worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Since October 2022, she has been working in the Centro di Competenze Lavoro Welfare Società del Dipartimento di Economia Aziendale Sanità e Sociale (Deass) of Supsi, Switzerland. She is a member of the Center for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequality directed by English lecturer Bev Skeggs. She is the author of numerous essays in Italian and English. Her articles have been published in various newspapers, including Repubblica, Il Manifesto and Il Fatto Quotidiano. She writes for Internazionale and L’Essenziale. His latest book is entitled “Le grandi dimissioni. Il nuovo rifiuto del lavoro e il tempo di riprenderci la vita” (Einaudi, 2023).

Francesca Coin
DIG Board, Sociologist