Lecture

The plebeian instinct: labour, precariousness and social uprisings

Ruy Braga (USP)

February 24, 2015, 15h00

Keynes Hall, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

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)