Digital Labour Markets Intermediaries at work in comparative perspective

• Grant number: 24/04799-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: January 01, 2025
• End date: December 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Agreement: ANR
• Principal Investigator: Nadya Araujo Guimarães
• Grantee: Nadya Araujo Guimarães
• Principal researcher abroad: Léa Lima
• Institution abroad: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam), France
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Ana Carolina Silva Andrada ; Bárbara Geraldo de Castro ; Monise Fernandes Picanço ; Renata Faleiros Camargo Moreno

Abstract

While the digitalization of business activities or financial markets is the subject of a rich literature, the digitalization of the labor market through the development of digital tools for matching jobseekers to job positions remains understudied. The project proposes to develop a comparative approach to the digitalization of the labor market in France and Brazil, combining a sociology of the work of digital labour market intermediaries (DLMIs) as on-demand platforms, job search engines, and professional social media with a sociology of the use of technical devices by jobseekers and recruitment actors. The comparison draws its interest from the confrontation of largely globalized digital devices, linked to the globalization of the main private players in labor market intermediation, with national contexts structuring radically different labor markets in France and Brazil. The diversification of the types of intermediaries approached will be crossed with consideration of the segmented nature of sectoral labor markets. We will be focusing on the home care labor market on the one hand, and IT sector on the other. (AU)