Unequal development and labour in Brazil / Gerry Rodgers, Roberto Véras de Oliveira and Janine Rodgers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodgers, Gerry, author.

Oliveira, Roberto Véras de, author.

Rodgers, Janine, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge inequality studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor productivity--Brazil.

Labor productivity.

Economic development--Brazil.

Economic development.

Equality--Brazil.

Equality.

Brazil--Economic conditions--21st century.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Gerry Rodgers has a DPhil in Economic Development from the University of Sussex (1972) and an MA (Cantab) in Economics and Mathematics. He worked at the International Labour Organization in a variety of research and management positions, includingDirector of the International Institute for Labour Studies. He has mainly worked on poverty, inequality and employment, especially in India and in Latin America, and has published widely on these issues. Presently he is a collaborator of the Laboratory for Studies and Research on Labour and Public Policy at the Federal University of Para̕ba in Joô Pessoa, and is also Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. Roberto V̌ras de Oliveira has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Sô Paulo (2002) and undertook post-doctoral work during 2015-2016 at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (Los Angeles). He is presently Full Professor at the Federal University of Para̕ba, Joô Pessoa. His research is concerned with the Sociology of Labour, Political Sociology and Economic Sociology. He is a Scholar of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and a member of its Social Sciences Advisory Committee, and amember of the Coordinating Group of the Network for Studies and Interdisciplinary Monitoring of the Labour Reform. Janine Rodgers has a Degree in Economics from Paris (1966), an MA in Development Economics from the University of Sussex (1969) and a Certificate in Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (1982). She worked for the International Labour Organization on labour market inequalities, on gender issues and on crises. She has been Deputy Executive Secretary of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). She is currently a collaborator of the Laboratory for Studies and Research on Labour and Public Policy at the Federal University of Para̕ba, Joô Pessoa, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Rodgers, Gerry. Unequal development and labour in Brazil

ISBN:

9781003326670

1003326676

9781000828771

1000828778

9781000828764

100082876X

Publisher Number:

40031515303

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