Seminar
Crises, Labor and Social Unprotection: Brazil and Portugal facing the neoliberal trap
March 2, 2022, 2:30 pm
Room 1, CES | Alta
Presentation
In recent decades, crossed by two distinct global crises, the neoliberal counter-revolution has led to the erosion of labor rights, concentration of income and social lack of protection throughout the world, generating inequality and poverty. The proposed seminar will seek to reflect on the articulation between neoliberalism, work and social protection, having as reference the Brazilian and Portuguese cases. It will seek to demonstrate that very different countries, such as Brazil and Portugal, were recommended or imposed similar economic policies, which produced largely negative social and labor market impacts. In the two analyzed crises, and in both national contexts, it will be argued that the more distant from neoliberal precepts and policies, the more successful were the governmental responses.
Biographical notes
Tiago Oliveira is an economist with a PhD in Economic Development, in the area of concentration in Social and Labor Economics, from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil). Since 2019 he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra.
Jorge Caleiras is a sociologist and holds a PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. He has been a senior member of the Social Security Institute since 1998.
Moderator: Pedro Hespanha. Sociologist. Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Economics of Coimbra and Founding Member of the Center for Social Studies.