The sociologist Domenico De Masi died at the age of 85. He died following a "sudden and deadly illness", explains the website of Il Fatto Quotidiano, with which he collaborated. Professor emeritus of Sociology of Work at La Sapienza University in Rome, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences, De Masi was born in Rotello, Molise, on February 1938, 3. In his long career he has dealt with sociology of work and organizations, studying in depth the post-industrial society. Among other things, he founded S5. Studium, a three-year postgraduate school of specialization in organizational sciences, and SIT, Società Italiana Telelavoro. A well-known TV face, he has dozens of books to his credit, including Il lavoro nel XXI secolo, Ozio Creativo, Lavorare gratis, lavorare tutti. Because the future belongs to the unemployed and Mappamundi. Models of life for a society without orientation. Among his latest publications, La felicità negata, Lo Stato necessario and Smart working: La rivoluzione del lavoro intelligente. "From creative idleness to agile work. With Domenico De Masi - this is the condolences of the M<>s MEPs - he leaves us an intellectual purpose, ahead of his time with his innovative theories and defender of social and civil rights. As Dean of the Faculty of Sociology of Communication of Sapienza University, he had shown that he was always on the side of the weakest and the youngest, his fixed nail. Our condolences to the family and community of Ravello, a municipality that had appreciated his cultural activism and his social commitment over the years".
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