The Portuguese late modernization and the complexities of inclusion through work

Hespanha, Pedro

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“…). The full implementation of reform programmes and the expansion of welfare provision were, nevertheless, conditioned or reduced by the onset of economic recession in the mid‐1970s and the shift from expansionary to austerity economic measures (Hespanha ; Rhodes ; Brito ). Moreover, the weaknesses in terms of benefits and services in the provision of welfare were a sign of the low degree of penetration of the state and of its limited role in the redistribution of resources and in reducing social and economic imbalances (Mozzicafreddo ; Rhodes ).…”

Section: Delayed Modernization and The Consolidation Of A Weak Welfarmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…External and internal changes challenged the processes of dualization within the labour market and the system of welfare. After the democratization process, the openness of Portuguese society to the international community represented, at the same time, a considerable set of constraints and opportunities (Hespanha ; Silva ; Zartaloudis ; Petmesidou and Glatzer ). Economic competition in an open world market and budgetary and fiscal convergence criteria imposed by the Economic and Monetary Union were two of the external pressures, whose impacts came to reinforce some of the vulnerable aspects of the Portuguese economy.…”

Section: The ‘Insider–outsider’ Divide Revisitedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 2003, ‘Portugal exhibited the second largest share of fixed‐term contracts in total employment within the 15 EU member States where fixed‐term contracts accounted for an average of 12.8% of total employment’ (Portugal and Varejão ). Throughout the years, it has been a recurrent strategy to increase flexibility by allowing more insecure forms of employment such as fixed‐term contracts, self‐employment, temporary work and underground work (Rodrigues ; Hespanha ; Mozzicafreddo ; Kovács ).…”

Section: How Changes In the Labour Market Introduced New Forms Of Duamentioning

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“…Recurrent practices of circumventing or violating labour laws and/or labour rights settled in the Portuguese Constitution (e.g. abusive dismissals, non‐renewal of fixed‐term contracts) have been used to evade a legislative framework considered to be very rigid (Hespanha ; Silva Lopes ; Dornelas et al . ; Centeno ).…”

Section: How Changes In the Labour Market Introduced New Forms Of Duamentioning

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A Changing Labour Market under the Intensification of Dualization. The Experience of a Southern European Society

Valadas

2017

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Fifty years ago, a Portuguese sociologist, Adérito Sedas Nunes (1964), used the image of a ‘dual society under evolution’ to refer to Portugal. Since then, the image of Portugal as a country simultaneously old and new, (post) modern and traditional was used by several social scientists in various fields of research (migration, urban studies, social policy, education, culture). In spite of the remarkable process of modernization the country has experienced during this period of time, inequalities and dualisms continue to be deeply embedded in the economic and social system and were even intensified by recent austerity measures in the context of massive unemployment and economic distress. In the article, I examine two specific domains where signs of dualism(s) persist, the labour market and the system of welfare, and investigate how the interconnectedness between the two is generating new forms of social and economic inequalities. Reforms in the labour market have been under constant reform within the last decades, representing, for a large and increasing number of individuals, more precarious working conditions, low paid jobs, unstable lives with intermittent careers. At the same time, governmental policies have contributed to diminish the level of social protection for labour market participants in precarious employment as well as for people without jobs. This article aims at providing a contribution to the literature on dualization focusing on the link between changing forms of integration in the labour market and transformations in the social protection system, examining its specific configuration in one of the countries belonging to the Southern European welfare regime.

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Section: Delayed Modernization and The Consolidation Of A Weak Welfarmentioning

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Section: The ‘Insider–outsider’ Divide Revisitedmentioning

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Section: How Changes In the Labour Market Introduced New Forms Of Duamentioning

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The Portuguese late modernization and the complexities of inclusion through work

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A Changing Labour Market under the Intensification of Dualization. The Experience of a Southern European Society

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