Author:

• Ana Paula Pereira Marques - Marques APP - Braga, Outro País/Another Country - Universidade do Minho - <amarques@ics.uminho.pt>

Thematic Area:

Saúde e Trabalho

Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the inevitability of the processes of segmentation and precariousness of labour relations and employment, which is responsible for the inscription of "new" forms of social inequality that underlie the current model of development of economies and societies. Its aim is to criticize the limits of global financial and economic logic, which configures a "new spirit of capitalism”1, resembling a divinization of the natural order of things. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out an analytical journey through the ongoing changes in the labour market, accompanied by an epistemological vigilance which allows us to frame and relativize neoliberal (di) visions and dominant techno-deterministic theses. The enunciation of scenarios on the future of work will conclude this journey and will allow us to draw attention to both the historical and temporal constraints and to the urgent need to uncover the existent ideologies and politicises in the present rational and logical processes of ressymbolization of work and employment as a "central social experience” in contemporary times.

Keywords:

Labour Market Segmentation Flexibles forms of Employment Forms Social Inequalities

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