Category Archives: QUIT seminars

Spanish workers in the Netherlands: an x-ray of the exploitation system in the distribution and logistics sector

Speaker: Sander Junte Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The precariousness and lack of opportunities that characterize the Spanish labor market have led many Spaniards in recent years to choose to move to

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Racism, Place, and Space: White Sanctuaries, U.S. Museums, and Maintaining the Status Quo

Speaker: David G. Embrick Institution: University of Connecticut The Art Institute of Chicago – a nationally recognized museum – as a white sanctuary, i.e., a white institutional space within a racialized social system that serves to reassure whites of their dominant position

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Sexual and gender-based harassment in the workplace: a qualitative approach

Speakers: Sara Moreno & Vicent Borràs Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The main objective of the study is to carry out a qualitative approach to sexual and gender-based harassment in order to

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The effect of occupational training on employment

Speaker: Álvaro Fernández Junquera Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball This study, financed by the Employment Service of Catalonia, deals with one of the active labor market policies implemented by the public employment

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Active employment policies as an indirect source of social capital among young people with precarious insertion trajectories.

Speakers: Joan Miquel Verd & Joan Rodríguez Soler Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The insertion of young people in the labour market is a constant in the European policy and research agendas.

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The more you search the less you find: low qualified job seekers and online job search

Speakers: Guillaume Dumont Institution: Centre de Recherche OCE de Emlyon Business School Drawing on in-depth interviews with unemployed workers, this article explores how low qualified job seekers experience the online job search process. By taking the digitalization of the access to labor

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Dual vet and school-to work transition of young people: the social actors perspective

Speakers: Daniel Barrientos Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball Dual Vocational Education and Training arises in Spain within the European policies about employment and training for young people. However, the lack of an

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Drivers of Youth Labour Market Integration Across European Regions

Speakers: Rosario Scandurra Institution: researcher Juan de la Cierva of the Department of Sociology of UAB Territorial disparities and youth labour markets have been often considered as separated themes, due to challenges in data availability. Comparative regional or sub-regional research on youth

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Changes in the times, changes in jobs: The masculinization of domestic work and the feminization of care work

Speakers: Vicent Borràs & Sara Moreno Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Presentation of the results of an investigation that aimed to analyze the changes in the uses of time, based on the comparative analysis of the two editions of the Time Employment

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Analysis of the gender regimes of political organizations: a comparison according to the degree of institutionalization

Speaker:  Núria Alcaraz Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The objective of this research is to know the effects of the degree of institutionalization of political organizations on the gender relations established in

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