This project addresses the transformations of the employment regime that took place in Portugal in the context of global economic restructuring of the last decades and its onsequences in respect to employment and work. The deleterious impacts on work of the growing internationalization of production and concomitant financialisation have been salient in a country vulnerable to delocalization of production, macroeconomic imbalances and indebtedness. These impacts reached their zenith with the Global Financial Crisis and ensuing "troika" financial bail-out in 2011. At the time a reconfiguration of employment regime aimed at internal devaluation was spelled out in the troika's Memoradum and implemented, affecting institutions and rules governing employment protection, working time arrangements, unemployment benefits and collective bargaining. Building on previous research that characterized the institutional reconfiguration associated with internal devaluation as a regressive one that amounted to a transfer of income from labor to capital and to a change of power resources unfavorable to organized labor, the project intends to broaden this research in two different ways. First, it extends the assessment of devaluation of work to key dimensions of the quality of employment and working conditions that might have been directly deteriorated as a result of the reconfiguration of employment regime (in particular wages, working time and job security). Second, by analyzing actors' strategies and power resources at national, sector, and company level it pin points long term consequences of internal devaluation its drivers, and means to counteract them. The project conjectures that the institutional reconfiguration of the Portuguese employment regime and internal devaluation may have accelerated a process of cumulative devaluation of work involving loss of competences and skills, investment retrenchment, increasing inequalities, and demographic decay, whose relations and drivers ...

We propose an international comparative approach enabling similiar questioning of neighborhoods affected by changes whose the causes are, possibly, comparable (globalization, metropolisation, transformation of national and local governments), but also the consequences in terms of social effects and take on change. The relations between resilience and resistance in these four central European urban neighborhoods will be studied on the basis of the practices of residents and users, which we consider to be less of the traditional logic of the "springboard district" than of the existence of spheres of life. belonging and uses that go well beyond the neighborhood, and can be described as "socio-spheres", and be grasped through the notion of "scenes". The analysis will be based on interviews about the life course of individuals and families living in the neighborhood at the time of the survey, and particularly those who struggle to maintain themselves by developing residential strategies (according to family, friends, professionals), as well as to individuals and families whose presence in the public space and their attachment to the territory (manifested by their activities and practices of certain places) express and anchor their desire to have a free appeal. The goal of "staying in town" is therefore the backbone of cross-examination of 4 central districts of major European cities: Paris, Brussels Lisbon and Vienna. These interviews, 240 in number (60 per site), will be supplemented by site-based, system-based observations to the extent that they offer resistance / resilience catches. The "systems of places" thus drawn up are combined with "linkage systems" making it possible to describe the hospitality of the reception area, its amenities, and the possibility for some poor households to remain in the city center, despite, and possibly due to, metropolisation.

Within the framework of the ILO-Swedish project on freedom of association and collective bargaining (GL0/09/60/SID), for the International Labour Organization and under the supervision of the Senior Project Officer, Pierre Guibentif, DINÂMIA’CET-IUL will undertake in-depth analyses of the data gathered during diagnostic missions to Indonesia, Jordan and Malawi (to be provided by the project team) by undertaking the following specific tasks: - Undertake a descriptive analysis of the qualitative and quantitative data gathered in the field during the diagnostic mission to Indonesia; - Undertake a descriptive analysis of the qualitative and quantitative data gathered in the field during the diagnostic mission to Jordan; - Undertake a descriptive analysis of the qualitative and quantitative data gathered in the field during the diagnostic mission to Malawi.

This project sought to collect, analyze and provide a detailed set of information on the projects financed by the “Programa de Desenvolvimento Comunitário para a Mouraria”, ultimately aiming at an integrated analysis of the PDCM, its implementation and functioning as well as the objectives achieved in this phase of work: "the individual and comparative analysis should focus on each project in relation to the achievement of the proposed objectives and the contribution of each of them to the results of each and each axis in relation to the general objectives of the PDCM."

The Project provided an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of the phenomenon of domestic work, including some new empirical research. It mainly concerned the nature of the legal regulation of domestic work and domestic workers, contextualized by socio-legal and socio-economic analysis. Its focus is on law and society, including the impact of changes in the law on society, and encompassed both issues arising from domestic work and issues concerning domestic workers. The Project is focused on Portugal, where there has been no study of the legal implications of the nature of domestic work and the employment relationship, the identity of the workers, or the wider impact of the commodification of such domestic work. It will also consider, in a comparison, the United Kingdom, Brazil, India and Mozambique.