QUIT Seminars

• 2024
  • Industrial democracy and algorithmic management: the Spanish case in comparative perspective

    Speaker: Óscar Molina, Alejandro Godino & Sander Junte

    Institution: Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    The seminar presented the results of the INCODING (Democracy at Work through Transparent and Inclusive Algorithmic Management) project, which analyses the role of collective bargaining in regulating greater transparency in the design and implementation of AI-based systems that influence the organisation of work.

    Date: 19/06/2024

  • Characteristics of working in all-inclusive resorts in the Dominican Republic

    Speaker: Ernest Cañada

    Institution: Researcher at the University of the Balearic Islands and member of Alba Sud

    Tourism growth in the Dominican Republic has been steady since the 1990s. After the interruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, its reactivation has been even more intense and the country leads tourism growth in the Caribbean. The main area in which this development has taken place is the Macao area in Punta Cana, in the province of La Altagracia. This development has been managed mainly by hotel chains, mostly Spanish, under the all-inclusive formula. This model has been critically analysed for the lack of integration it generates in its surroundings, reproducing exclusionary dynamics. There has also been strong attention to phenomena associated with sex tourism. However, less attention has been paid to the characteristics and quality of the employment it generates, as well as to its labour relations. This presentation aims to share an ongoing research that aims to broaden the understanding of the type of employment generated by all-inclusive resorts in relation to working conditions and labour relations. The research, basically ethnographic in nature, has been developed through five stays between 2017 and 2023, with direct observation in three areas (inside hotels, at Hoyo Friusa, a suburb of Bávaro, and in the dormitory town of Higüey, in the same province of La Altagracia) and in-depth interviews with 140 people (workers and managers of hotels and professionals linked to the sector). The results of the research show how low salaries turn these hotels into places where workers are constantly trying to find other sources of income in multiple ways. In addition, the flexibility and cost-saving policies imposed by the companies generate terrible employment and working conditions. Finally, the absence of a class-based trade union organisation means that workers are unable to defend their demands through organisations that respond to their interests. Consequently, they try to resolve their concerns through informal forms of protest. The growth of all-inclusive hotel tourism has not been accompanied by decent employment, but has exacerbated working poverty and precariousness.

    Date: 21/05/2024

  • The gender gap in time use – is it narrowing or has it stagnated?

    Speaker: Joan García Román

    Institution: Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics

    The gender gap in time use has narrowed significantly in all Western societies in recent decades. However, recent studies show a slowdown or stagnation of the reduction. The seminar will present different papers on the recent evolution of the gender gap in time use, especially in domestic work. Based on time use surveys in Spain, the Basque Country and other countries, the most recent estimates and how the gap varies according to the time of the life cycle and the composition of couples, especially in terms of the relationship with the activity and education of the partners, will be shown.

    Date: 16/04/2024

  • A typological proposal for self-employment in Chile and Spain

    Speaker: Claudia Baeza

    Institution: predoctoral researcher, ANID scholarship holder (Doctorate Scholarships Chile)

    The seminar will focus on presenting the results of a comparative typological analysis of self-employed workers between Chile and Spain, the aim of which is to establish similarities and differences in the patterns of configuration of the various profiles of self-employed workers, conceptually delimiting self-employment and establishing as a hypothesis its stratification and differentiated distribution in the territory. Therefore, the aim is to provide theoretical and empirical elements for a sociological analysis that sheds light on the social reality of the group studied. The methodology is structural and articulated by combining two multivariate analysis techniques. First, a multiple correspondence analysis was carried out to determine the main differentiating factors of self-employment, and then a classification analysis was applied to obtain the typology of self-employment. We worked with data from the National Employment Survey 2019, 2020 and 2021 for Chile and the Labour Force Survey 2019, 2020 and 2021 for Spain.

    Finally, two main factors are obtained from the data, labelled as: “socio-occupational level” and a second factor as “degree of autonomy”. These two factors allowed us to generate three types of profiles for self-employment in Chile and Spain: high stratum; middle stratum; and agricultural stratum.

    Date: 19/03/2024

  • Generous paternity leave entitlements in a segmented labor market: A cautionary tale of paternity leave take-up in Spain

    Speaker: Dani M. Marinova

    Institution: professor Serra Hunter in the Department of Political Science at the UAB

    To evaluate the success of paternity leave as a progressive, equal access policy instrument, it is essential to assess it against the backdrop of preexisting labor market inequalities that condition its use. We investigate a case of an extension of unprecedented length in paternity leave provisions in Spain. Analyses of an original mixed-sample survey administered to cohorts of fathers with varying leave entitlements show that take-up increases under the longer provision but does so unevenly. While already high levels of take-up surge further among fathers in stable employment, fathers in temporary jobs, the self-employed and those at the bottom and top of the income distribution maintain lower levels of usage. The former group take on average two to nine weeks more leave with their newborns than do the latter groups. The unprecedented length of Spain’s paternity leave provision thus compounds preexisting inequalities in take-up rates. Results tell a cautionary tale of generous paternity leave provisions in the context of a segmented labor market, with bleak implications for the policy instrument’s capacity to generate social change across social strata. With the entering into force of the EU Work-life Balance Directive in 2019, other European states are considering the implementation of generous benefits for fathers, thus increasing the policy relevance of understanding how preexisting labor market segmentation shapes inequalities in the use of paternity leave in Spain.

    Date: 20/02/2024

  • What is precariousness? Disentangling a phenomenon that characterizes the youth generation

    Speaker: Lara Maestripieri

    Institution: Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Department of Political Science of the UAB and IGOP researcher

    Precariousness and the growth of non-standard work have emerged as crucial factors contributing to the diversification and delay of young people’s transition to adulthood. Despite their popularity, there is a lack of clarity in the operationalisation of these concepts, especially regarding their subjective and objective components and their work and non-work dimensions. Notably, there is a critical misalignment between work-related objective indicators of precarious work (e.g. having a fixed-term contract), usually applied in surveys, and subjective-oriented approaches towards precariousness (e.g. feeling insecure), often used in qualitative studies to capture people’s perceptions and experiences that tend to go beyond a strictly work-oriented definition. This paper aims to merge these two traditions and to investigate holistically precariousness, using an original database comprising 3.012 young respondents in Spain.

    The findings illustrate the multidimensional nature of precariousness, with economic insecurity and work conditions as its core elements. The involuntary nature of non-standard work emerges as a key dimension of precarity

    Date: 05/01/2024

• 2023
  • Educational attainment and unstable employment trajectories: an exploration of discordant cases

    Speaker: Alejandro González

    Institution: Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    One of the variables that most influences the labour market trajectory of young people is their educational level. Thus, the labour market trajectories of individuals with low educational level are more unstable and have jobs with a lower income than those of other individuals with a different educational level. In this paper we first analyse the relationship between educational level and unstable labour market trajectories. Second, based on a sequence analysis, we classify the cases according to whether or not they are trajectories that illustrate each educational level. Third, we analyse the characteristics of the mobilized social contacts according to such classification. Lastly, we explore qualitatively the cases that do not follow the norm, i.e., the discordant cases, in order to explain qualitatively what makes them discordant. The data used for these analyses comes from a hybrid survey that gathers information on the longitudinal use of social contacts among young people with unstable labour market trajectories in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. For those with the lowest educational level, discordant cases have a better employment trajectory than such individuals tend to have. The mobilisation of personal contacts is one of the drivers used to achieve this. For those with an intermediate educational level, discordant cases are characterized by a high proportion of unemployment or inactivity. Lastly, for those with a higher educational level, who have the lowest proportion of discordant cases, these are slightly more precarious than the illustrative ones.

    Date: 21/11/2023

  • Adapting to the new times? The emergence of innovative practices in collective bargaining

    Speaker: Óscar Molina

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Presentation of a research report for Eurofound analyzing recent developments and emerging practices in relation to collective bargaining processes and outcomes, mainly in the private sector.

    The report covers collective bargaining systems in ten EU Member States and analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic and social crisis on the dynamics of collective bargaining and collective agreements. It also examines the practices and innovations that have emerged in response to structural factors such as technological change, decarbonization and climate-neutral policies, and the aging workforce. It also assesses the ability of collective bargaining systems to adapt to structural changes in work, production and the labor market, as well as medium-term trends.

    See the research report here.

    Date: 21/03/2023

  • Beyond misclassification: algorithmic management as challenge to the Standard Employment Relationship

    Speaker: Tiago Vieira

    Institution: European University Institute

    The by and large unregulated presence of algorithmic governance techniques in couriers’ labor process short-circuits what would otherwise be a standard employment relationship, thus undermining the regulatory efforts of the Spanish Government. To a large extent, this stems from the surveillance possibilities offered by algorithmic management, leveraged by human managers in ways that compromise the normative underpinnings of the employment relationship through systematic breach of workers’ privacy, inducement of hazardous behaviors, diminishment of workers’ autonomy and constraints to right to information.

    Date: 28/02/2023

  • Between control and consent: insights from dark stores into middle managers’ roles and organizational dynamics in the age of algorithmic management

    Speaker: Tiago Vieira

    Institution: European University Institute (Florencia)

    Last decade’s technological advancements have introduced a major transformation in the world of work: the inception of algorithmic management. While workplace monitoring and assessment through performance metrics are not new, algorithmic management takes a giant leap forward by leveraging the computational and deep learning abilities of algorithms to assemble and process vast amounts of data, enabling automated or semi-automated decision-making. In light of this, some scholars have explicitly or implicitly predicted a future where the role of human managers, particularly low- and middle-level managers, will become insignificant compared to that of algorithms.

    However, against this potentially overly deterministic prediction, other studies have argued that the deployment of algorithmic management tools does not, and will not in the foreseeable future, eliminate the need for human managers. Indeed, middle managers remain a salient and everyday presence in the labor process of organizations despite the deployment of algorithmic tools. This is because, despite the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and computational algorithms to improve firms’ efficiency, some critical managerial traits cannot be automated.

    This article aims to understand how algorithmic tools reshape the role of middle managers and how this, in turn, transforms the dynamics of managerial control in workplaces. Drawing on 51 semi-structured interviews with managers and shop-floor workers from last-mile grocery delivery warehouses – a sector we consider both revelatory and critical for our purposes – our findings show that, notwithstanding the automation of several coordination-related tasks, middle and low management retains a crucial role in organizations. This role has two facets that appear contradictory but are, indeed, complementary.

    Date: 21/11/2023

  • Men’s Entry into Paid Care Work: Opportunities and Risks

    Speaker: Vicent Borràs & Joan Rodríguez Soler

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    The study, commissioned by the Direcció General de Cures, Organització del Temps i Equitat en els Treballs, of the Departament d’Igualtat i Feminismes de la Generalitat de Catalunya, seeks to improve knowledge about the potential and risks of men joining care-related occupations, where women traditionally make up the majority; the ultimate aim is to point out possible lines of action in the design of public policies for the incorporation of men in care work.

    Date: 31/10/2023

  • Employment and wage effects ofminimum wage policy

    Speaker: Ferran Elías

    Institution: Universitat de València

    Presentation of his research in which he estimates the effect of the minimum wage for the entire wage distribution of workers, using a new empirical approach that is particularly appropriate for national-level changes in the minimum wage. In particular, it uses the old wage distributions to develop a counterfactual using the difference-in-differences technique.

    The results include negative employment effects, large wage growth for the affected workers and a significant increase in wages across the distribution. The employment adjustment occurs through an increase in layoffs and a decrease in inflows.

    Date: 09/06/2023

  • Caregiving in inequality, a comparative analysis of the distribution of unpaid care work in Mexico and Argentina from a gender and legal perspective.

    Speaker: Camila Buffarini

    Institution: Universidad Autònoma de México

    Her research aims to analyse the convergences and divergences in the current distribution of unpaid care work in Mexico and Argentina, in order to bring together the conceptualisation of the human right to care and comprehensive care systems. The analysis is based on a critical theoretical framework, called the gender critique of law, incorporates the tools provided by the human rights approach, the gender perspective and intersectionality, and seeks to demonstrate that the lack of recognition, redistribution and reduction of women’s unpaid care work violates the human rights to care, equality and autonomy of girls and women.

    Date: 09/05/2023

  • Illustration of the construction of a multidimensional index with the Urban Vulnerability index

    Speaker: Irene Cruz

    Institution: IERMB

    The analysis techniques used in the construction of urban vulnerability indices are dominated by dimension reduction strategies, among which principal component analysis (PCA) stands out. Apart from its virtues, such as simplicity and interpretability, PCA has certain limitations that must be borne in mind. On the one hand, PCA, like factor analysis (FA), treats all variables together, under the assumption that they are all related to the underlying dimensions, so that they do not allow for an organised analysis along dimensions. This makes comparability between annuities very difficult, due to the fact that there is no certainty that the information contained in the first factor of the analysis of one annuity corresponds to that of the following annuity. To overcome these limitations, structural equation models are proposed in the literature, which make it possible to configure a much more stable factor structure by controlling the various dimensions that group together the indicators involved in the analysis, making them comparable over time. The session will illustrate the methodology followed to construct the Urban Vulnerability Index following this procedure, and the main results obtained will be presented.

    Date: 25/04/2023

  • Stagnant evolution? Theoretical reflections and empirical analysis through the distribution of reproductive work among cohabiting couples in Andalusia

    Speaker: María Cascales

    Institution: Universidad de Sevilla

    Date: 23/05/2023

  • The processes of social mobility in comparative perspective between Chile and Spain

    Speaker: Cristian Segura-Carrillo

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    The objective of the seminar is to present the analysis of social inequality from the perspective of social mobility, comparing Spain and Chile, countries that share a late industrialization process, even though they represent different contexts in terms of level of development and social model.
    In this sense, following the research tradition on social stratification and mobility of the ISA Research Committee 28, a quantitative design is proposed using secondary information sources, with national bases for Chile and Spain. An analysis by cohorts and by sex is carried out. Social class is considered as the analytical axis from the perspective of EGP (Erikson, Golthorpe and Portocarrero, 1979, 1993) and the adjustments proposed by Ganzeboom and Treiman (1996) that support international comparison, using a categorization of 6 classes. Absolute mobility is analyzed by observing the social structure in both countries, as well as relative mobility to study equality of opportunity using log-linear models. As a result, differences by gender and cohort are observed. However, even though the weight of social origin has diminished, it continues to be present in intergenerational class movements. In particular, in the Chilean case, this association is much stronger for both sexes; in the Spanish case, men tend to have a stronger social origin-destination association, but women considerably diminish this association. In both countries, the effect of educational expansion is key to social mobility.

    Date: 24/01/2023

  • Precariousness and public employment in terms of gender. A look at municipal services in Chile

    Speaker: Betzabeth Marín

    Institution: PhD student of the Sociology Programme of the UAB and CONICYT scholarship holder

    A doctoral thesis that seeks to explain the factors that influence the feminisation of labour precariousness in Chilean municipal employment, from a gender perspective. Research in the sector is scarce and non-existent from this perspective, hence the importance of its inclusion as an approach. Transversally, two theoretical objects are addressed: 1) the objective dimensions of job insecurity and its link with 2) gender segregation in municipal services: administration, health and education.

    Through a design that articulates quantitative and qualitative data, it is proposed to demonstrate that, on the one hand, Chilean municipal services have a highly heterogeneous and sexually segregated employment structure, reproducing territorial and labour market inequalities, and that 2) the particularities of job insecurity in municipal employment go beyond the dichotomous view of precarious/non-precarious, usually associated with one of its dimensions: job stability, i.e. the temporary/permanent binomial. The construction of a typology of precarious profiles makes it possible to show the various forms and degrees to which multidimensional precariousness affects the public workforce.

    Date: 05/12/2023

• 2022
  • When Woman is no longer spelled with M for Mother. A study of professional women who choose not to become mothers

    Speaker: Tania Corsetti

    Institution: Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR)

    The existence of women who decide not to be mothers in a labor context where the conflict between reproductive work – as a result of the exercise of maternity – and productive work acquire an intensity as never before in the history of capitalism, led to the construction of a research, whose problematic refers to the incidence of professional development and work in the decision not to exercise maternity, and its relationship with the identity processes that working women construct.

    Date: 21/11/2022

  • 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 other countries, including the Netherlands. Contrary to expectations, they land in a system of harsh working and living conditions.

    The seminar will present the main results of a research project that aimed to learn about this system and the experiences of a colony of Spanish workers in it.

    Date: 25/10/2022

  • 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 in society. The purpose of this paper is to highlight how museums create and mantain white spaces within the greater context of being an institution for the general public.

    Date: 14/06/2022

  • 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 understand the perceptions, experiences and socially shared imaginaries that are part of the phenomenon in the workplace. Specifically, the aim is to analyze the sociocultural background that acts as a context and support for the existence and persistence of sexual and gender-based harassment beyond its quantification. In this sense, the specific objectives are to identify, describe and explain the social factors that make the phenomenon possible, as well as the elements of change and continuity that have occurred in recent years. Finally, the results obtained allow us to point out some recommendations on lines of action, as well as a set of suggestions for the design of a possible survey on male violence in the workplace.

    Date: 24/05/2022

  • 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 services in Spain, namely occupational training. These actions, aimed primarily at the group of unemployed people, consist of the offer of training courses framed in the labor system. This paper evaluates the causal effect of participation in occupational training courses on the probability of finding employment, based on data from the “Survey of Educational-Training Transition and Labor Market Insertion” and the “Survey of Labor Market Insertion of University Graduates”, both published by the INE in 2019.

    Date: 26/04/2022

  • 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. The recent economic and health crises have only increased the concern about the labour insertion of this group. Active employment policies have been one of the instruments used to improve the employment situation of young people. However, the orientation of these policies has been called into question due to the limited effectiveness that they have often shown. The longitudinal perspective adopted in the article makes it possible to deepen the understanding of the role that active employment policies may have in the unstable employment trajectories of young people. The results highlight a limited capacity of these policies in order to modify youth labour market trajectories and the low perception that this young people have of them as corrective or improvement instruments of their trajectories.

    Date: 22/02/2022

• 2021
  • 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 markets as a starting point, we uncover three main activities – crafting, applying, reviewing – central to the online job search process and analyze their performance by job seekers. We show that their use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for employment purpose sparks strong tensions and dilemmas shaping how they experience job search, ultimately preventing them from using ICTs to secure work but also increasing their vulnerability on the labor market.

    Date: 24/11/2021

  • 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 indepth legislation, the high level of unemployment and the poor resources, caused by the economic crisis, or the low role played by the Administration, has led to a limited model. Every Autonomous Community, productive sector, high school or company, has implemented their owns solutions for each limitation, developing different models in Spain. This situation does not allow us to conclude that Dual VET improves the school-to-work transition only by itself, but rather there are some conditions that must be fulfilled in its implementation to achieve the positive effects aimed. This article studies the perspectives of social actors who design and implement the model to analyse the development and possibilities of the Dual VET

    Date: 20/10/2021

  • 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 labour market integration (YLMI) have been therefore scarce. In this article, we address this gap by presenting a composite measure of YLMI that covers a wide range of indicators and sheds light on the EU territorial divide of young peoples’ opportunities at regional level. In order to build the YLMI index, we use benefit-of-the doubtweighting, a seminal methodology on composite indicators (CI) that combines sequence with conditional weights based on the range of each sub-indicator. To proof the usefulness of YLMI, we analyze the evolution of regional YLMI in the EU before and after the economic crisis; and the trends of homogenization or differentiation across EU territories. Furthermore, we investigate to what extent employment conditions, skills supply and technological resources explain cross-regional variations in YLMI.

    Date: 29/06/2021

  • 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 Survey 2020/03 – 2009/10. The main results show that there has been a generational change in dedications to domestic work and care work, both on the part of women and men; There has not been a division of work, but changes in dedications to certain tasks.

    Date: 26/05/2021

  • 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 them. The analysis of gender relations in political participation has focused mainly on the lack of interest of women in politics and on how their social position hinders their participation in the public space. However, focusing on the analysis of political organizations, and on how they produce and reproduce gender norms and practices, allows us to go further and understand how gender relations take place in the everyday life of organizations by shaping their gender regimes. Most of the studies have dealt separately with political parties and social movements. The main question of this research lies in questioning whether the degree of institutionalization of political organizations has an effect on the configuration of their gender regimes and their capacity to transform themselves into more equitable organizations. For this, a qualitative strategy is characterized by the time structure generated, the horizontal and vertical segregation of tasks and agencies, and the resistance to change of three representative case studies of the different degrees of institutionalization. At the same time, the intersectional perspective is incorporated to explain how gender regimes have differentiated effects based on the social position of women.

    Date: 24/03/2021

  • Bargaining in Networks. A Comparative Analysis of Coordination in Collective Bargaining

    Speaker:  Òscar Molina

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    The analysis of collective bargaining coordination has attracted the attention of scholars and policy-makers since the early 1990s, but has witnessed a renaissance more recently in the context of generalised de-centralization and the new constraints imposed by the EMU. Originally, ‘coordination’ was presented as a dimension of collective bargaining that was considered an alternative to ‘centralization’, as it focused on processes rather than structures. However, the reality was that all coordination indexes and scores (CITE data sources) have tended to reflect structural characteristics of collective bargaining, and have provided very little insights on the processes and relational aspects underpinning coordination. The objective of the NETWIR project is to provide an alternative assessment of how coordination takes places in different collective bargaining systems and sectors. To do this, the project will adopt a behavioural and relational view, based on the methodological and analytical tools of Social Network Analysis (SNA)

    Date: 24/02/2021

• 2020
  • Representación sindical y activismos feministas. La experiencia de la Intersindical de mujeres en Argentina

    Speaker: Tania Rodríguez

    Institution: Universidad de Buenos Aires

    Date: 10/03/2020

  • Digitalization in the Retail Sector: a comparative case study between Italy and Spain Industrial Relations’

    Speaker:  Arianna Marcolin

    Institution: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa)

    In this moment of profound changes of all the aspects of society, also the retail sector has been altered by technological innovations, which have been identified as the spread of omni-channel strategies, the introduction of touch-screen totem and implementation of tablets and bracelets for workers. These changes should improve shopping experience for consumers but, at the same time, have consequences on employment conditions, influencing employers’ association and trade unions actions and finally shaping collective agreements content. In particular, regarding trade unions strategies, this research aims to identify three different categories of reactions: neglect, reject and accommodate, in order to provide a categorization useful for analysing trade unions actions  also in other sectors.

    Therefore, based on the actor-centred neo institutionalism theoretical framework, within the analytical perspective of Varieties of Capitalism and sector-based approach, this research aims to address a hole in the literature, comparing the Italian and Spanish retail sector technological innovations in relation to alterations of employment conditions, social actors strategies and collective agreements content.

    Slide presentation available

    Date: 11/02/2020

• 2019
  • Evaluating social impact: the role of entrepreneurial moral intentions in impact investing

    Speaker:  Guillaume Dumont

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    How can financial investors evaluate the promise to create social value made by the start-ups in which they want to invest? Multiple market tools help actors to evaluate and forecast economic action but evaluating social value raises numerous challenges outlining the intimate intertwining of morals and markets. This is particularly at stake when early stage start-ups and entrepreneurs lack track record, when social value holds different understanding, and when economic goals jeopardize moral action.

    Date: 30/05/2019

  • Working Poverty among Labor Market Outsiders. A Risk-based Approach to Cross-national Variation

    Speaker:  Dani Marinova

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Ciència Política i Dret Públic

    Date: 30/04/2019

  • Los poderes sindicales en contexto de (post)austeridad: retos sectoriales en Portugal

    Speaker:  Hermes Costa

    Institution: Universidad de Coimbra

    Date: 26/04/2019

  • La reinserción laboral de los deportados y retornados en Guadalajara y Tijuana: ¿empleos sostenibles o empleos precarios?

    Speaker:  Alfredo Hualde

    Institution: Colegio de la Frontera Norte (México)

    Date: 14/03/2019

  • Visiones del “descontrol”: problematizaciones y perspectiva sobre la cuestión de la inseguridad, la política social y el trabajo en la Argentina actual

    Speaker:  Tatiana Jack

    Institution: Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

    Date: 19/02/2019

• 2018
  • Smart’ industrial relations in the making? Insights from the analysis of union responses to digitalisation in Italy and Spain

    Speaker:  Stefano Gasparri

    Institution: Warwick Business School

    Date: 16/05/2018

  • El cuidado como componente del bienestar social: desafios teóricos y de investigación

    Speaker: Karina Batthyány

    Institution: Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

    Date: 10/05/2018

  • Abordar l’organització del Treball i la salut a partir de les enquestes de riscos psicosocials

    Speakers: Salvador Montcada & Clara Llorens

    Institution: Instituto Sindical de Trabajo, Ambiente y Salud (ISTAS)

    Date: 02/05/2018

  • Formación profesional dual en Alemania y España: orígenes y retos actuales

    Speaker: Anika Jansen

    Institution: German Economic Institute

    Date: 21/02/2018

  • Els indicadors de qualitat de vida com a mesura de la responsabilitat social de les empreses

    Speaker: Montserrat Llobet

    Institution: IGOP (UAB)

    Consultora de Responsabilitat Social i Qualitat de Vida en Oqualitat – ORGANITZACIONS I QUALITAT DE VIDA

    Date: 07/02/2018

• 2017
  • Desigualdad persistente en jóvenes del Uruguay (1990-2013). Análisis de la intensidad, calendario y secuencia de eventos de transición

    Speaker: Verónica Filardo

    Institution:  Facultad de Ciencias Sociales- Universidad de la República

    Date: 11/12/2017
  • Movilidad social intergeneracional en Montevideo 1996-2010

    Speaker: Marcelo Boado

    Institution: Universidad de la República (Udelar), Uruguay

    Date: 15/02/2017

  • El capital social y las estrategias metodológicas para su operacionalización

    Speaker: Rafael Rey

    Institution: Universidad de la República (Udelar), Uruguay

    Date: 15/02/2017

• 2016
  • “Sponsored freelancers”: How labor outsourcing challenges the entrepreneurial behavior of freelancers and supports the rise of multi-layered labor?

    Speaker: Guillaume Dumont

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Date: 14/12/2016

  • Trabajo, Cuidados, Tiempo Libre, Relaciones de Género y Ordenamiento Social: del Ámbito Institucional al del Mundo de la Vida. Planteamiento Teórico – Metodológico y Plan Expositivo

    Speaker: Carlos Prieto

    Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Date: 13/10/2016

  • Welfare Capitalist Regimes and Actor Based Research – Agency Spaces for Young Unemployed in Spain and Germany

    Speaker: Christoph Gille

    Institution: Universität Duisburg-Essen

    Date: 05/10/2016

  • ¿Una calle sin salida? Perspectivas de la democracia brasileña

    Speaker: Francisco Amorim

    Institution: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), de Porto Alegre (Brasil)

    Date: 13/06/2016

  • La construcción analítica de las trayectorias laborales desde los métodos cualitativos: desafíos para la pensar una agenda de investigación comparativa entre Europa y América Latina

    Speaker: Leticia Muñiz

    Institution: Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (FaHCE) de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)

    Date: 20/04/2016

  • Negociación Colectiva en el sector de las Agencias de Empleo Temporal

    Speaker: Marcello Pedaci

    Institution: Università degli Studi di Teramo

    Date: 20/04/2016

  • Desigualdades en la articulación de empleo y vida familiar en España

    Speaker: Núria Sánchez Mira

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Date: 10/02/2016

• 2015
  • The Social Economy and worker co-operatives in the cultural industries, Catalonia

    Speaker: Emma Lees

    Institution: University of Sydney

    Date: 16/12/2015

  • Els processos de recerca laboral juvenil: l’ús del Process Tracing com a mètode d’anàlisi qualitativa

    Speaker: Mattia Vacchiano

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Date: 30/09/2015

  • El trabajo doméstico no tiene quién le quiera y el de cuidados solo a veces

    Speaker: Pilar Carrasquer & Teresa Torns

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Date: 06/05/2015

  • La emergencia de una ruta migratoria alterna. Inmigración e inserción laboral de hondureños en Barcelona, España

    Speaker: Carolina Rivera

    Institution: CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social) México

    Date: 13/04/2015

  • Els treballadors autònoms. Anàlisi a partir de l’explotació de la II Enquesta Catalana de Condicions de Treball

    Speaker: Joan Rodríguez Soler

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Date: 09/02/2015

• 2014
  • Statistical matching: introducción a la fusión de bases de datos

    Speaker: Diego Fleitas

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Date: 01/12/2014

  • La afiliación sindical de la población inmigrante El caso de CCOO de Cataluña

    Speaker: Pere Jódar & Antonio Martín

    Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Date: 30/06/2014

  • Malalts crònics i mercat laboral: la feina, la baixa i les seves problemàtiques

    Speaker: Lina Masana

    Institution: Universidad Rovira i Virgili

    Date: 16/06/2014

  • ¿Aporta algo al conocimiento de la dinámica laboral el análisis de las ofertas de empleo en internet? El caso de Infojobs

    Speaker: Rosa Marrero

    Institution: Universidad de La Laguna

    Date: 12/05/2014

  • Transicions i trajectòries laborals en temps de crisis i austeritat (2007-2011). Una primera identificació de la població espanyola de 20 a 60 anys afectada per canvis en el mercat de treball

    Speaker: Martí López

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Date: 28/04/2014

  • Labor organization and employment relations in Italian call centers during the crisis

    Speaker: Vincenzo Fortunato

    Institution: Universidad de Calabria

    Date: 31/03/2014

  • Diferències i desigualtats (Enquesta a la Joventut de Catalunya (2012)

    Speaker: Sara Moreno

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Date: 03/03/2014

  • Salut i joves (Enquesta a la Joventut de Catalunya (2012)

    Speaker: Josep Espluga

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Date: 03/02/2014

  • El impacto de la crisis en las trayectorias laborales de las personas jóvenes residentes en Cataluña. (Enquesta a la Joventut de Catalunya (2012))

    Speaker: Mireia Bolibar, Joan Miquel Verd & Oriol Barranco

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Date: 13/01/2014

• 2013
  • ¿Cómo investigar los procesos de trabajo artístico?

    Speaker: Dafne Muntanyola

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Date: 02/12/2013

  • The Quebec’s socio-politic context

    Speaker: Axel Vandenberg

    Institution: McGill University, Montreal

    Date: 06/05/2013

  • Estudi d’anàlisi sobre el treball no remunerat a Catalunya

    Speaker: Sara Moreno & Vicent Borràs

    Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball

    Date: 15/04/2013

  • Agency” as a Red Herring in Social Theory

    Speaker: Axel Vandenberg

    Institution: McGill University, Montreal

    Date: 04/03/2013