Precarization Processes in an International Comparison

Public Workshop on October 8 and 9, 2015, at Freie Universität Berlin. Precarization processes in labor and labor markets in Latin America and southern Europe are the focus of an international workshop to be held on October 8 and 9, 2015, at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität. Researchers from various countries will meet to address the causes, forms, and dynamics of precarization in different countries as well as the question of how new peripheries arise in southern Europe and Latin America. The workshop was organized by the research network desiguALdades.net of Freie Universität, the "Postwachstumsgesellschaften" (Post-Growth Societies) research group of Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut in Freiburg. Entitled "The Production of Peripheries - Precarization Processes in States and Labor Markets," the workshop is public and free of charge. The workshop language is English. The number of participants is limited to 50.