Maurilio Pirone is Post-Doc Fellow in 'Labour discipline and new processes of organizing in the platform economy' within the Horizon2020 PLUS project (Platform Labour in Urban Spaces). He participates in the Into the Black Box project and is part of the editorial board of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation Journal. His research interests include platform capitalism, new forms of metropolitan unionism, the impact of digital technologies on the discipline and organisation of labour, logistics and social movements.

Into the Black Box is a collective project of trans-disciplinary research promoted by activists and scholars. Planetary logistics, platforms and digital transformations, labour organisation and struggles, urbanisation processes, are the main lenses through which Into the Black Box elaborates a critical analysis and interpretation of contemporary social, economics, and political dynamics.