Interpretations of global labor in the age of neoliberal capitalism urgently demands robust and critical historical and comparative analysis. For decades, research on labor collective organization has focused almost ...

This paper aims to investigate the implications of educational reform, in the last twenty years to the career of teaching category of Sao Paulo. We assume that the new educational policies implemented by the Education ...

The creation of employment opportunities is a key factor to economic growth, but when pursuing sus tainable development, work arrangements must also be fair and stable. In contrast, precarious employ ment is a common and ...

This article argues that the precarisation of employment that has taken place in Brazil since the 1990s has been fundamentally different in kind from earlier forms of precariousness, which took place outside the formal ...

This article analyses the key characteristics of the two major economic models of the last century, and of the current one thus far, in Latin America. The first is centred on national development, with a relative welfare ...

Historically, the development literature concerned with Latin American labour markets has focused on job numbers and productivity. But given the persistence of large shares of informal and now otherwise precarious ...