Work in Brazil: essays in historical and economic sociology

Abstract

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Digitrabes em contexto: caracterização e aspectos críticos dos trabalhadores de plataformas digitais em cinco países da Iberoamérica

“…El proceso keynesiano no presenta un asentamiento similar al europeo, siendo, la segunda mitad del siglo XX, un periodo recorrido por economías de naturaleza más inestable y subsidiaria de occidente (Ramos et al, 2015). Los marcos políticos de la mayoría de los países latinoamericanos navegan entre la inestabilidad y los conflictos durante este periodo, impactando en trayectorias laborales marcadas por una profunda desigualdad social y una estructura de derechos laborales menos definida (Cardoso, 2016). El periodo de crisis de deuda que el continente experimenta en los años 1980, sin embargo, también abre la puerta al neoliberalismo en el continente (Limonad, 2021).…”

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Job Insecurity Scale (JIS) in Brazil and cross-national analysis of Job Insecurity effects in Brazil and Spain

“…These data require an interpretation of the recent labour history of both territories. Both the Spanish and Brazilian cases go through authoritarian periods in the second half of the twentieth century, which implies that the construction of their social and labour protection models are late and fragile [7,89]. In the Spanish case, this aterialized in the duality of labour at the turn of the millennium.…”

“…This implies a stronger economy than in Brazil, with a social protection system that provides more guarantees for employees. In the Brazilian case, there is a tendency towards economic subsidiarity with European countries and North America, which, together with the prior fragility of employment, places the Brazilian labour context in a situation of poorer protection [7]. Against this background, the scientific literature has shown that job insecurity is a phenomenon mediated by conditions of poverty and resource availability [15,91].…”

“…This is due to the country's colonial history and an economy closely linked to the primary sector. All this together with periods of persecution of trade union forces [7]. As a result, the country still has a very large underground economy, which in the neoliberal context is combined with the experience of labour insecurity in labour relations [8].…”