Section historical research pays attention to research on the world of work and its unions in contemporary times, in Italy and in Europe.
The main fields of analysis concern, in addition to the reconstruction of the biographical and political leaders of the big unions, social history, the labor movement and the interaction between working class and the political, social, institutional and economic caracteristics of Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
The activities are carried out, along with the original research of archive, through conferences, seminars and pubblications with an interdisciplinary and international approach.
Particular focus is paid to the process of European integration, the social model linked to it and the role played in its history from the world of work and its organizations .