News Tendencies in the Global Work. Comparative Scales of Informality, Precarity and Unemployment

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: SJES004 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations (host committee)
RC20 Comparative Sociology
RC30 Sociology of Work

Language: English

The global consequences and effects that workers have suffered in the transition space between the exercise of a threat resulting from the COVID 19 pandemic, and the effects of the business strategies implemented in this framework of exception and The new political expressions at the state level represent a scenario that questions the emergence and consolidation of the phenomenon of job insecurity, the increase in informality and the explosion of unemployment. The impacts of this process have been confirmed in the literature as activation processes that have increased the productive imperative for workers to reintegrate, update, adapt and function in a World of work described as increasingly demanding, demanding and uncertain. Cultural, technological, ecological, political and economic changes have led to the consolidation of a new framework of work relations. The session invites proposals that integrate the debate between these transformations in the world of work, the changes in the physiognomy of contemporary societies and the prospects for equity, integration and social cohesion, especially considering the differences between the societies of the global north and the global south, but also seeing the global articulations in these processes, actors and agency possibilities. We also intend to discuss and reflect on trends that have pointed to the precariousness of work as well as the physiognomy of the productive sectors that tend to bring together atypical forms of employment, dynamics of low valorization of the labor force and vast contingents of informal work.
Session Organizers:
Deepthi SHANKER, Central University of Odisha, India and Dr. Francisco FAVIERI, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina
Oral Presentations
Navigating Work and Purpose in Milan's Event Industry: An in-Depth Exploration
Gemma SCALISE, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; Cristina BURINI, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Engaging with the Labour Market : Experiences of (in)Dignity in Precarity
Aurélie GONNET, Université Paris Cité - Cerlis, France
Informalidad, Desempleo y Precariedad Laboral: Tramas Del Trabajo En La Sociedad Chilena Postpandemia
Dasten JULIAN VEJAR, Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile; Osvaldo BLANCO, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
Breaking Barriers: Women's Motivations and Retention Strategies in Male-Dominated Occupations in Chile
Alessandra OLIVI, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Camila CAMPOS PAREDES, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Valentina ALVAREZ LÓPEZ, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile
Empleo Público En Precario
Betzabeth MARÍN-NANCO, Chile