Abstract

This conference will focus on Ruy Braga’s latest book, which already  incorporates some preliminary results of the project “Precarização do trabalho, desigualdades Sociais e dinâmicas de ação coletiva”  [Labour Precarization, Social inequalities and the dynamics of collective action] (resulting from the FCT/CAPES Arrangement), involving the Centre for Social Studies and the University of São Paulo.

Bio note

Ruy Braga is a sociologist and associate professor at the University of Sao Paulo. Braga holds a Master in Sociology and a PhD in Social Sciences at the State University of Campinas. Latest books: A política do precariado: do populismo à hegemonia lulista [The precariat policy: from populism to Lula's hegemony] São Paulo: Boitempo, 2012. Hegemonia às avessas: Economia, política e cultura na era da servidão financeira [Hegemony in reverse: Economics, politics and culture in the age of financial servitude] (with Francisco de Oliveira and Cybele Rizek) São Paulo: Boitempo, 2010; Por uma sociologia pública [For public sociology] (with Michael Burawoy), São Paulo: Alameda, 2009; Infoproletários: Degradação real do trabalho virtual [Cyberproletarians: Real degradation of virtual labour] (with Ricardo Antunes), São Paulo: Boitempo 2009.

Activity within the  Doctoral Programme "Labour Relations, Social Inequalities and Trade Unionism" and the  Social Policies, Labour and Inequalities Research Group  (POSTRADE)