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In recent decades, crossed by two distinct global crises, throughout the world the neo-liberal counter-revolution has led to the erosion of labour rights, income concentration and social unprotection, generating inequality and poverty. The proposed seminar will seek to reflect on the articulation between neo-liberalism, labour and social protection, with reference to the Brazilian and Portuguese cases. The aim will be to demonstrate that in very different countries, such as Brazil and Portugal, similar economic policies were recommended or imposed, which produced largely negative social and labour market impacts. In the two crises analysed, and in both national contexts, it will be argued that the more distant from neo-liberal precepts and policies, the more successful the governmental responses were.

Bio Notes

Tiago Oliveira is an economist and holds a PhD in Economic Development, in the area of ​​Social and Labor Economics, from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil). Between 2019 and 2022 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra. He is a researcher at IDEFF.

Jorge Caleiras is a sociologist and holds a PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra. He has been a senior official at the Social Security Institute since 1998.

Moderator: Pedro Hespanha. Sociologist. Professor Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Economics of Coimbra and Founding Member of the Centre for Social Studies.