LABOUR PRECARIOUSNESS, MIGRANT WORK AND ETHNIC-RACIAL PREJUDICE IN PORTUGAL: changes in employment and trade union responses
The composition of the workforce in Portugal has undergone structural changes in recent decades, which go hand in hand with fundamental changes in labour regulation. Among them stands out the significant increase in the resident foreign population, which exceeded one-fifth of the workforce in 2023....
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) |
| Repositorio: | Caderno CRH |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.ufba.br:article/61367 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/crh/article/view/61367 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Precarity Migrant workers Digital platforms Racism Trade unionism Precariedade Trabalhadores migrantes Plataformas digitais Sindicalismo Précarité Travailleurs migrants Plateformes numériques Racisme Syndicalisme |
| Sumario: | The composition of the workforce in Portugal has undergone structural changes in recent decades, which go hand in hand with fundamental changes in labour regulation. Among them stands out the significant increase in the resident foreign population, which exceeded one-fifth of the workforce in 2023. The reflection on labour precariousness cannot ignore the growing presence of migrant workers, particularly in sectors such as administration and support services, hospitality, catering, construction, manufacturing industries, work mediated by digital platforms (passenger transport and food delivery) and intensive agriculture, marked by labour informality and undeclared work. It can be said that labour precariousness in Portugal, whether in traditional sectors or in those resulting from the digitalization of work, is a phenomenon that can only be fully understood taking into account labour flows, the international division of labour and racialized work, with the multiple discriminations that weave the intersection between race, class and gender in the structure of inequalities. This article presents a diagnosis of labour and its transformations in Portugal, also identifying the way in which the action programs of trade union confederations and Collective Labour Regulation Instruments, at the sectoral level, incorporate (or not) the issues of migrant workers and the struggle against ethnicracial prejudice. |
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