Maurizio Lazzarato

Maurizio Lazzarato
Lazzarato in 2014
Born	1955 (age 61–62)
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	scholar
Academic background
Education	Ph.D.
Alma mater	Université de Paris VIII
Thesis title	Les machines à cristalliser le temps : perception et travail dans le post-fordisme
Thesis year	1996
Doctoral advisor
Academic work
Discipline	Sociologist
Sub discipline	Marxism

Maurizio Lazzarato (born 1955) is an Italian sociologist and philosopher, residing in Paris, France. In the 1970s, he was in activist in the workers' movement (Autonomia Operaia) in Italy. Lazzarato was a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Multitudes. Lazzarato is a researcher at Matisse/CNRS, Pantheon-Sorbonne University (University Paris I), and a member of the in Paris.

Lazzarato began his educational career as a student at the University of Padua in the 1970s, where he was active in the Autonomia Operaia movement. Lazzarato left Italy in the late 1970s for exile in France to escape political prosecution, although the charges against him were abandoned in the 1990s.

Lazzarato is known for his essay, "Immaterial Labor," that appeared in a collection of contemporary Italian political theory edited by Marxist philosophers Michael Hardt, and Paolo Virno, called Radical Thought in Italy (1996). His research focuses on immaterial labor, the transformation of wage labor, and work, and cognitive capitalism. He was also interested in the concepts of biopolitics and bioeconomics.