Over the last 50 years, the implementation of municipally-run integrated waste management systems in Europe has led to the professionalization of the sector, leaving little room for the informal recycling sector. However, since the last decade, new social groups have
The thesis analyses the strategies of local development and employment creation in the framework of the European Union in the period of expansion prior to the economic crisis of 2008 (and within the period of development of local development policies
This doctoral thesis entitled “Labour trajectories and personal networks: a longitudinal analysis in youth population” has as its main objective the study of the work trajectories of young people and their social networks, understood as a resource for labour integration
During the course of this investigation, topics that are currently being debated regarding the laubor market in Spain are addressed. Its main objective is the study of the mobility that the different groups of workers actually have, due to the
The growing outsourcing of services is a paradigmatic phenomenon of recent changes in employment relations. The progressive erosion of the relationship between employee and employer, as well as the introduction of the client as an actor in labor relations can
The doctoral thesis starts from the need to (re) conceptualize the analytical framework in which to approach the study of new rural dynamics. To this end, the contributions of the New Economic Sociology, useful for a complementary approach to the
In a context in which labor is deeply marked by the uncertainties and transitory nature of employment, this thesis focuses on the inequalities generated by personal networks along the educational and labour trajectories of young people. Personal contacts — family,
The objective of this thesis focuses on the study of domestic and care work in Spain from a specific perspective: an analysis of class and gender. The thesis discusses how care is configured between classes and between genders, in other
The aim of this research is to study the health and safety training in the construction sector. In particular, training that is provided to migrant workers, the appropriateness and adequacy of its contents and its effect on working conditions and
This dissertation aims to study immigrants’ economic integration process into the Spanish labour market. In order to accomplish this goal, their occupational trajectories become the main theoretical and methodology tool. Labour market trajectories are defined from immigrant workers’ occupational mobility
