Nadya Araujo Guimarães

Nadya Araujo Guimarães is a Senior Professor at the University of São Paulo Department of Sociology, and holds the Chair in Sociology of Work. She is also a Senior Researcher associated to CEBRAP (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning), and in 2016 was inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Nadya Guimarães received her Ph.D. at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1983) and did post-doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Special Program on Urban and Regional Studies for Developing Areas (1993-1994). She has been researching on the Brazilian labor market focusing on workers trajectories; comparative studies on unemployment, employment flexibility and labor market intermediaries; gender/race inequalities; care and care workers.

International Coordinator of the Comparative Project "Who cares? Rebuilding care in a post-pandemic world" (Brazil/Fapesp, Canada/FRSSH, Colombia/MinCiencias, USA/NationalScience Foundation, France/ANR, UK/ESRC).

Visiting Professor at Princeton University (PU/CLAS, 2007-2008), held the Chair in Brazilian Studies at the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Spring, 2017-2018) and was Visiting Professor at the EHESS (Paris, January 2019).

The project

Title: The Digitalization of Labor Market Intermediaries at work in a comparative perspective.

"While the digitalization of business activities or financial markets is the subject of a rich literature, the digitalization of the labor market through the development of digital tools for matching jobseekers to job positions remains understudied. The project proposes to develop a comparative approach to the digitalization of the labor market in France and Brazil, combining a sociology of the work of digital labour market intermediaries (DLMIs) as on-demand platforms, job search engines, and professional social media with a sociology of the use of technical devices by jobseekers and recruitment actors. The comparison draws its interest from the confrontation of largely globalized digital devices, linked to the globalization of the main private players in labor market intermediation, with national contexts structuring radically different labor markets in France and Brazil. The diversification of the types of intermediaries approached will be crossed with consideration of the segmented nature of sectoral labor markets. We will be focusing on the home care labor market on the one hand, and IT sector on the other."

Hosting Institution: Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire pour la Sociologie Économique

Selective Bibliography

• Care and Care Workers. A Latin American Perspective (Springer, 2021, co-écrit avec H. Hirata)
• O Gênero do Cuidado. Desigualdades, significações e identidades (Ateliê Editorial, 2020, co-aut. avec H. Hirata)
• El Cuidado en América Latina. Mirando a los casos de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia y Uruguay (Fundación Medifé Edita, 2020, co-org. avec H. Hirata )
• Genre, race, classe. Travailler en France et au Brésil. Paris: L’Harmattan (Col. Logiques Sociales), 2016, (co-org. avec M.Maruani et B. Sorj)
• Être chômeur à Paris, Sao Paulo, Tokyo. Une méthode de comparaison internationale. Paris : Editions de Science Po, 2013. (co-écrit avec D. Demazière, H. Hirata, K. Sugita).