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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Ruy Gomes Braga Neto (Lambari, July 16, 1972) is a Brazilian sociologist specializing in sociology of work. Graduated in Social Sciences (1993), Master in Sociology (1996), PhD in Social Sciences at the State University of Campinas (2002), associate Professor at the University of São Paulo (2012) and Full Professor (2019) at the University of São Paulo Paulo. He also conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley (2010-2011 and 2015-2016). His book "The politics of the precariat: from populism to Lulista hegemony" was a finalist for the Jabuti Award in 2013 (the most prestigious Brazilian literary award). Ruy Braga served as a visiting professor at the following universities: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), National University of Cuyo (Mendoza - Argentina), University of Coimbra and University of California at Berkeley. In addition, he gave lectures and mini-courses at the University of California at Los Angeles, Pennsylvania State University, Friedrich Schiller Jena University, University of Rome 1 "La Sapienza", at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, at ISCTE (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa ), the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), the National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS) and the University of Witwatersrand. He was head of the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at USP (2016-2020) and coordinates the Center for the Study of Citizenship Rights (Cenedic). In addition to coordinating along with Marco Aurélio Santana the Research Committee (CP) of "Sociology of Work" of the Brazilian Society of Sociology (SBS), he currently chairs the International Cooperation Committee of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at USP and is an associate researcher at The Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP) at the University of Witwatersrand. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Since the turn of the century, the welfare system anchored in the 1988 Constitution has been undergoing an unprecedented restructuring process, with the growing assetization of social provision as its defining feature, leading to the dismantling of the social model agreed upon in the years of redemocratization. This research project assumes that the first wave of financialization of socia…
This research project aims to investigate the notion of "classes" and "class struggle" in the thought of Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010), a prominent french Marxist intellectual. For this purpose, it is intended to promote an analysis of the development of his formulations on the subject between 1995 and 2009. In 1995, the author published two of his major works on Marx and Marxism, both deali…
This project intends to study in São Paulo the ways how trade union officials engage themselves in territory-based coalition-building with other trade unions and organizations of other social movements. My hypothesis is that territorial coalitions, although incipient and with profound differences of patterns and appraisals over the trade union spectrum (between more or less rooted unions,…
This research project aims to map the reconfiguration of outsourced workers' collective identities from the great recession that started in 2008 to the deepened social crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. I will build a comparative analysis between the global North and South, parting from the idea of "frontier struggles" (N. Fraser) involving poor workers in Brazil and the U…
The recent development of the new Global Labour Studies has highlighted the centrality of the mobilizations of informal and precarious workers in the revival of the labor movement collective action. In addition, a significant part of these studies emphasize the importance of transnational extension of the scope of trade unionism in the reconfiguration of national labor movements. The purp…
Despite the existence of important bibliographic assessments of labor sociology in Brazil focusing on several periods of configuration and development of this knowledge, our literature still lacks a study of the evolution of the different research programs about the universe of Brazilian labor able to articulate them to the different practices - professional, policy, critical and public -…
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