Spring 2018

Nadya Guimarães holds the Chair in Sociology of Work at the University of São Paulo. Since 1995 she is a CNPq Senior Researcher associated to CEBRAP (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning), and in 2016 was inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She also holds the positions of Associate Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, in the UK, and is a Board Member of the International and Interdisciplinary Network on “Marché du Travail et Genre” (“Labor Market and Gender”), CNRS/France. 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 Brazilian the labor market focusing on: economic change and workers trajectories; gender/race inequalities; comparative studies on unemployment, employment flexibility and labor market intermediaries; care and care workers. In 2010, she received the Jabutí Prize – Brazil’s premier book award – for Trabalho flexível, empregos precários? Uma comparação Brasil, França, Japão (“Flexible work, precarious jobs? Brazil, France, Japan in comparative perspective”), co-edited with Helena Hirata and Kurumi Sugita.