Abstract

RAMOS, Vasco. Informality, stability and precarity: a sequential analysis of occupational trajectories over the last few decades. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2017, n.84, pp.43-62. ISSN 0873-6529.  https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2017849382.

The issue of the unpredictability of occupational paths in the post-Fordist capitalist era has been widely discussed in contemporary sociology. Beginning with the second half of the 20^th century, the article contextualises this debate in the Portuguese case. Mobilising the occupational trajectory concept, which it develops using a sequential analysis of the trajectories of three Portuguese age cohorts, it offers a path typology that articulates contractual formats and work. The results reveal a wide variety of trajectories and a segmentation of paths into different degrees of contractual vulnerability.

Keywords : occupational trajectories; life path; precarity; informality.

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