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Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Nadya Araujo Guimarães got her PhD at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1983); post-doctoral studies at the Special Program on Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993-1994). Teaching experience in different universities (Federal Universities of Brasília and Bahia, in Brazil, and Princeton University in the US). She is Chair Professor (Titular) at Sociology Department, University of São Paulo (1999 on) and senior researcher (I-A, CNPq) associated to the Center for Metropolitan Studies; Director of the National Institute for Metropolitan Studies (CNPq/MCT, 2009-2012). She is Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (since 2016). Research lines: economic restructuring and workers occupational trajectories; ; gender and race inequalities at the workplace; comparative studies on unemployment (trajectories and experiences) in large metropolises (São Paulo, Paris and Tokyo); job search, social networks and labor market intermediaries; care and careworkers in comparative perspective. National and international cooperation: She acted as visiting researcher in different institutions and countries (Cambridge University/CLAS; Univ. Warwick/IER, Univ. Oxford/CBS, Freie Universität Berlin/DesiguALdades, UCLA, Princeton/PIIRS, Univ. Versailles/Printemps, among others). She was associate researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour Le Développement (France, 1989-1991); Institute for Employment Research da University of Warwick, (UK, 1999-2001), and is research fellow at the IER/Univ. of Warwick and Laboratoire GTM-Genre Travail et Mobilités (CNRS,France). She has already coordinated international cooperation projects joining Brazilian researchers and research groups in the UK (CNPq/British Council Program: Cebrap, Iuperj, IFCS Univ. Warwick, LSE, Univ West of England) and in France (CNPq/CNRS: Cebrap, USP GTM/CNRS, Printemps/Univ Versailles, IAO/Univ.Lyon). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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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 o…
The Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) intends to be a world-class center which is also committed to knowledge diffusion and technology transfer. Hosted at CEBRAP and composed by associated university departments, the center is composed by a multi-disciplinary group - demographers, political scientists, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists -, whose research agenda aims at stu…
The pandemic has shown how everyone is equally vulnerable to the coronavirus, and how that kind of equality in vulnerability coexists with differences according to class, gender and race. Research in Brazil and other countries has shown that the globalization of the coronavirus has hit more strongly the poor, black and female people. Care work, professionally carried out by women, black, …
The pandemic highlighted the centrality of care. COVID-19 heightened awareness of the myriad forms of social connections in care as essential work crucial to the functioning of society. Care work has never been so visible, yet so precarious and vulnerable. Disruptions due to COVID made visible the web of social relationships of care and revealed the vulnerabilities of care recipients and …
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This project intends to investigate the meanings of work among young bike couriers indelivery apps in the city of São Paulo. This relationship, in Sociology, has been treated fromthe point of view of economic forms of subjection, expressed in the mechanisms of controland organization of work. Here, I seek to explore another dimension, also relevant: that ofmasculinities as constitutive of…
The project focuses on the intermediation market for a special type of work, one that provides domestic and care services, analyzing intermediaries enterprises and workers in the context of work recruitment in São Paulo. It is intended to approach the theme from an innovative point of view with regard to the field of studies on labor markets and job intermediaries. On the one hand, focusi…
The sexual dimension - or gender dimension - of work has become an issue in the work's studies, especially since the 1970s, in the wake of the great feminist mobilizations of this decade. By questioning the archetypal figure of the male worker, these reflections reconceptualize categories such as work, production, reproduction, class, exploitation, among others, and propose new instrument…
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La dimension genrée (ou sexuée pour utiliser les termes de l'époque) du travail émerge comme question dans la sociologie du travail française notamment à partir de la fin des années 1970. Dans un dialogue fructueux avec la théorie féministe, critiquant la figure archétypique du travailleur masculin, une réflexion se structure proposant une reconceptualisation de différents concepts déjà…
The rise of emerging markets challenges expectations on employment prospects usually shaped by scholars from the developed countries. Empirical evidence for the Brazilian case shows that an intriguing expansion of formally protected job contracts occurred in the 2000s amidst a generalized shortage of occupational opportunities elsewhere. Besides, its correlate was an increasing commodific…
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