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Labor in a Globalizing City
The extraordinary stories of low-income women living in São Paulo, industrial case studies and the details of three squatter settlements, and communities in the periphery researched in Simone Buechler’s book, Labor in a Globalizing City, allow us to better understand the period of economic transformation in São Paulo from 1996 to 2003. Buechler’s in-depth ethnographic research over a period of 17 years include interviews with a variety of social actors ranging from favela inhabitants to Wall Street bankers. Buechler examines the paradox of a globalizing city with highly developed financial, service, and industrial sectors, but at the same time a growing sector of microenterprises, degraded labor, considerable unemployment, unprecedented inequality, and precarious infrastructure in its low-income communities. The author argues that informalization and low-income women’s labor are an integral part of the global economy. Other countries are continuing to use the same kind of neo-liberal economic model even though once again with the latest global financial crisis, it has proven to be detrimental to many workers.
Job Insecurity and Work Intensification
Table of Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1 1 More pressure, less protection 8 2 Flexibility and the reorganisation of work 39 3 The prevalence and redistribution of job insecurity and work intensification 61 4 Disappearing pathways and the struggle for a fair day's pay 77 5 Job insecurity and work intensification: the effects on health and well-being 92 6 The intensification of everyday life 112 7 The organisational costs of job insecurity and work intensification 137 8 Stress intervention: what can managers do? 154 9 What can governments do? 172 Appendices 185 Notes 189 References 206 Index 222.
Enforcement of Labor Regulation, Informal Labor and Firm Performance
This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, the authors show that in areas where law enforcement is stricter firms employ a smaller amount of informal employment. Furthermore, by reducing the firm's access to unregulated labor, stricter enforcement also decreases average wages, productivity, and investment. The results are robust to several specification changes, and to instrumenting enforcement with (1) measures of access of labor inspectors to firms, and (2) measures of general law enforcement in the area where the firm is located.
The Informal Sector
This paper investigates the determinants of informal economic activity. We present two equilibrium models of informality and test their implications using a survey of 48,000+ small firms in Brazil. We define informality as tax avoidance; firms in the informal sector avoid tax payments but suffer other limitations. In the first model there is a single industry and informal firms face a higher cost of capital and a limitation on size. As a result informal firms are smaller and have a lower capital labor ratio. When education is an imperfect proxy for ability, we show that the interaction of the manager's education and formality has a positive correlation with firm size. These implications are ...
Planet Hemp
A HISTÓRIA DA BANDA DE ROCK MAIS POLÊMICA DO BRASIL CONTADA ATÉ A ÚLTIMA PONTA Como um terremoto, o Planet Hemp abalou as estruturas do rock nacional nos anos 1990. A mistura explosiva de rap e rock e o discurso de legalização da maconha fizeram a cabeça de milhões de jovens brasileiros, mas também incomodaram muita gente. Coragem, polêmica, irreverência e muito sucesso. Disco de Ouro e de Platina, shows lotados e a polícia nos calcanhares, culminando com a prisão da banda em Brasília, em 1997: um enredo digno de livro. E aqui está ele. A biografia definitiva de rock mais polêmica do Brasil, nos mínimos detalhes. Até a última ponta.
Liberdade Sufocada
Esta obra é crítica de interesse público, baseada na verdade de quem viveu os fatos, é narrativa de fatos reais: 1. Autobiografia 2. Movimento social 3. Movimento sindical 4. Empresário 5. Lições de vida 6. Liberdade sufocada 7. Viagens. 8. Políticas públicas e sociais 9. Direitos e liberdades fundamentais 10. Projetos 11. Convenções políticas 12. Campanhas eleitorais 13. Ministério público 14. Fiscalização contas públicas 15. Perseguições e intimidações 16. Investigações 17. Improbidades 18. Denúncias 19. Combate à corrupção e à Impunidade 20. Perseguições à imprensa 21. Regime de APARTHEID 22. Leis e Constituição Federal 23. Poesias 24. Administração pública 25. Cargo Público 26. Regularização fundiária 27. Qualificação profissional 28. Ações populares 29. Jornalismo 30. Difamação e fake news 31. Família 32. Mortes e assassinatos 33. Democracia 34. Golpe 35. Teses 36. Privatização 37. Inconstitucionalidade 38. Congresso Nacional 39. Licitações 40. Protecionismo.
