Book on Work and Unemployment Goes Digital

An e-book which presents a comparative study between Brazil, France and Japan is available for download on the website of HAL (CNRS) and on the library of this site.

The book, The Unemployed and Unemployment in an International Perspective- Comparative Studies of Japan, France and Brazil was just published in an e-book version.  The work is available for download at the HAL site, a bank of articles and publications from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique from France and also on this site.

The publication, published originally as volume 19 of the ISS Research Series (February 2006) in the series of books edited by the Institute of Social Sciences (ISS) of the University of Tokyo, present the results of in-depth research on unemployment and the unemployed,  involving  Brazilian researchers associated with CEM and partners from other national and foreign institutions. Organized by Kazutoshi Kase and Kurumi Sugita, the main findings of an international comparison about the case of unemployment was presented, carried out from case studies in São Paulo, Paris and Tokyo. Nadya Araujo and Paula Montagner (for CEM), Kurumi Sugita, Didier Demazière and Helena Hirata (for CNRS, France) and Maria-Teresa Pignoni (of the Ministry of Work for France), members of the project team. Two other recognized Japanese researchers were involved in the research, reflecting on the public policies of unemployment in France (by Tamiko Tsuru) and in Japan (by Kazutoshi Kase).

The work compares work trajectories and perceptions of unemployment in Sao Paulo, Paris and Tokyo. The study was carried out between 2001 and 2004 with the aim of understanding the ways that transformations in the dynamic of capitalist development reach the forms of regulation of local labor markets, affecting the mode of institutionalization of systems of work and representations of work and unemployment. Institutional and individual structural and subjective dimensions weave themselves into the creation of unemployment in the global economy.

The countries analyzed represent emblematic situations: In France, the ample system of social well-being consolidates itself especially after the post-war period; In Japan, the protection regime anchors itself in the private sector structured in turn in what is called, the “system of lifelong work”; In Brazil, assistance for the unemployed was established in the 1990’s with a relatively restricted reach in the context of the growing flexibility of the labor market.

The Unemployed and Unemployment in and International Perspective- Comparative Studies of Japan, France and Brazil will be launched in Sao Paulo on 11 September, during the international colloquium Novos Formas do Desemprego: Japan, France and Brazil numa persrectiva comparada.  At the same event, another book from the team will be launched entitled, Desemprego: trajetórias, identidades, mobilizações  (Unemployment: Trajectories, Identities, Mobilizations), published by SENAC in 2006.

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