Mattia Cavani

Mattia Cavani trained as a political scientist at the University of Bologna and the University of Pavia. Since 2015, he has worked as a freelance non-fiction editor and ghostwriter for leading Italian publishing houses. In 2019, he co-founded Redacta, the editorial workers' section of Acta, the Italian freelancers' union. He has served as President of Acta since 2025. Alongside his voluntary union work, he lectures at universities and contributes to publications on labour issues. His research has focused on freelance work in the book and audiovisual publishing industries, particularly in relation to monopsony, collective bargaining, and fair compensation. Since 2020, he has been a member of the editorial team of Officina Primo Maggio. When time permits, he translates articles on collective action by independent workers into English for his blog, A Supposedly Lone Thing.