About the Author:

Nadya Araujo Guimarães is Senior Professor at the Sociology Department, University of São Paulo, Senior Researcher associated to CEBRAP (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning), and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She is a Board Member of the International and Interdisciplinary Network on "Marché du Travail et Genre" ("Labor Market and Gender"), CNRS/France; and a member of the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP, USA/Princeton). She was an Associate Visiting Professor at Princeton University, Program in Latin American Studies (US, 2008), a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (US, 2018), and a ProfesseureInvitée at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, 2019). Nadya Guimarães receivedher Ph.D. at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1983) and did post-doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Special Program on Urban and Regional Studies for Developing Areas (1993-1994). She has been researching on the Brazilian labor market focusing on: economic change and workers trajectories; gender/race inequalities; comparative studies on unemployment, employment flexibility and labor market intermediaries; care and care workers. In 2010, she received the Jabuti Prize - Brazil's premier book award - for Trabalhoflexível, empregosprecários? Uma comparaçãoBrasil, França, Japão ("Flexible work, precarious jobs? Brazil, France, Japan in comparative perspective"), co-edited with Helena Hirata and Kurumi Sugita. Recent publications outside Brazil: Genre, race, classe. Travailleren France et au Brésil. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016 (co-org. with M. Maruani and B. Sorj). "Temporary agency work in Brazil", chapter (co-authored with P. Vieira) on the reader organized by H. Fu, on Globalization and Temporary Agency Work: Anthropological Perspectives on Labour Flexibility and Inequality (London: Gower, 2015). Êtrechômeur à Paris, São Paulo et Tokyo. Une méthode de comparaisoninternationale. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2013 (co-authored with D. Demazière, H. Hirata and K. Sugita).

Helena Hirata, sociologist, is research director emerita at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), having acted for more than ten years (1992-2005) as head of the CNRS research unit on Gender, Labor and Mobility at the Center for Sociological and Political Research in Paris (CRESPPA-GTM). Dr. Hirata is also international visiting professor at the Sociology Department, University of São Paulo, Brazil, board member of the international network MAGE (Gender and labour market) and member of the editorial board of Cahiers du Genre. She received her Ph.D. at the Université de Paris 8-Vincennes (1979) and her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) at the Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (1997). She was member of the scientific committee of the mission "The place of women at CNRS" (2009-2010) and conducted research projects to French and Brazilian labor unions, ILO, French and Brazilian enterprises about equality issues and women at work. She has been carrying on research on work and sexual division of work; unemployment, actors and institutions; gender and globalization; epistemology of work and gender; theories and practices of care in a comparative perspective. Main publications: Dictionnaire critique du féminisme (ed.) with F. Laborie, H. Le Doaré and D. Senotier, Paris, PUF, 2000; 2nd ed. Paris, PUF, 2004 (translated into Japanese,2002; Spanish 2002; Turkish, 2008; Portuguese, 2009; Bulgarian, 2010; Persian, 2014); Travail et Genre: Regard Croisés France, Europe, Amériquelatine. (dir) with M.R. Lombardi and M. Maruani, Paris, La Découverte, 2008 (translated into Portuguese, RJ, ed. FGV, 2008); Le sexe de la mondialisation. (ed.) with B. Labari, J. Falquet, N. Le Feuvre, D. Kergoat, F. Sow, M. Spensky, Paris, Presses de SciencesPo, 2010; Gênero e trabalho no Brasil e na França: Perspectivas interseccionais. (ed.) with A. R. de P. Abreu and M.R. Lombardi, Sao Paulo, Boitempo, 2016; Le travail entre public, privé et intime. Comparaisons et enjeuxinternationaux du care, with Damamme, A., Molinier, P. (orgs.) Paris, L'Harmattan, Series "LogiquesSociales", 2017.