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How migrant families are put together and the forms they take varies with the cultural\ud and social origins, though also with the family’s migratory strategy, the sociocultural\ud context of the host country and the latter’s chosen migration policy. Exploratory\ud fieldwork in an Italian area led us to adopt a combined analytical framework in\ud studying such families, bearing in mind both the theory of civic stratification and the\ud transnational perspective of migratory processes. In the first part of the article, we shall\ud explore certain implications of transnationalism and conclude that reunited families are\ud intrinsically transnational. In the second part, we shall apply the concept of civic\ud stratification to the study of family reunification. A third section will analyse some of\ud the results of our fieldwork, on which to validate the combined analytical approach. Our\ud contention is that a transnational perspective and civic stratification can be usefully\ud integrated and provide a new interpretive key to various aspects of family reunification

We explore the extent to which the current technological trend, dubbed Industry 4.0, might increase forms of control inside organisations, by focussing on pivotal firms in the so-called Italian Motor Valley currently embracing its adoption. We find that Industry 4.0 technologies open up great possibilities for incorporating the three forms of control identified by Orlikowski (1991), i.e. personal, bureaucratic, and social, into technological artefacts, often blending them together. If, on the one hand, this implies a technical and theoretical feasibility of enforcing forms of 'Big Brother' surveillance within the boundaries of organisations, and hereby of the workplace, on the other hand, the actual achievement of these possibilities depends on the organisational environment within which the new technologies are implemented.

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L'affermazione di Industria 4.0 (I4.0) ha rivitalizzato l'interesse, da sempre centrale per gli studi organizzativi, per il controllo nei luoghi di lavoro. Il presente contributo analizza, attraverso evidenza empirica, il modo in cui le tre forme di controllo del lavoro (a supervisione diretta, burocratico e sociale) si manifestano in quattro imprese metalmeccaniche del territorio bolognese che hanno avviato un processo di trasformazione tecnologica riconducibile a I4.0. I risultati della ricerca suggeriscono che l'adozione delle nuove tecnologie permette il consolidamento delle forme di controllo burocratico, aprendo al contempo alla possibilità di rafforzare tutte le forme di controllo e di riconfigurare, attraverso una più stretta integrazione, la loro relazione reciproca. In ultima istanza, tuttavia, il tipo e la misura del rafforzamento e della riconfigurazione delle forme di controllo dipendono dal contesto organizzativo in cui tali tecnologie sono implementate.