HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY

Author: REIS MELO FILIPE.
Year: 2004.
University: DEUSTO [www.deusto.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: Currently Neoliberalism calls for trade liberalization in developing countries as a necessary condition to achieve these countries overcome their current status of underdevelopment. Based on scientific assumptions of economic theory and supported by empirical research to corroborate his theory, defenders of Neoliberalism argue that open trade is attracting increasing demand for unskilled labor in the developing countries, benefiting from the shape most of its workforce is made up precisely for low-skilled workers. The objective of this research is to analyze the evolution of the demand for skilled and unskilled labor in the manufacturing industry in the state of Pernambuco during the period 1985-1996 and concluded if, against the backdrop of the Brazilian trade liberalization, trade liberalization It has also enabled the increase in employment of the workforce with low skills in the industrial sector in the state of Pernambuco. As the economy of the state of Pernambuco a developing economy where there is an abundant supply of low-skilled labor and a labor shortage of highly qualified, the scenario presented is as far as the liberalization process trading takes place, there is a relative increase in employment of low-skilled workers with regard to employment of highly skilled workers in the industrial sector Pernambuco, corroborating so, as provided by the theoretical model neoliberal.

Author: MAILLO CASCON FLORENCIO.
Year: 2005.
University: SALAMANCA [www.usal.es].
Place of defense: EDIFICIO HISTORICO.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE BELLAS ARTES.

Summary: Welcome Vega was an itinerant photographer who developed their business in the sixties, specializing in custom graph paper, a genre photographic memory dump to let people and all social events that were part rural life in the small county Salamanca of the Sierra de France, just in a very unique moment of its becoming, as it coincides with the beginning of the phenomenon of rural exodus historically suffered more decisive for the same. The file is composed of 2974 photographs. 1571 were reflected in the hometown of Vega Welcome, Sequeros, others 889 in Villanueva del Conde, the balance distributed among the following locations: 88 in Casas del Conde, 70 in Mogarraz, 70 in Monforte de la Sierra, 50 St. Martin's Castañar , 24 in Nava of France, and the rest in Miranda's Castañar, Cepeda and other scenarios. In this corpus review, the human figure is, in essence, the heart of the goal photographic Welcome Vega give this work an essentially anthropological bias: family portraits or individual identity card and passport, baptisms, first communions and weddings, or the same holidays with their processions and dances, as well as a record of events varied socio-political nature of local and provincial comprising this total look, are the expression of the small community ancestry living in a geographical area that, because of its proximity to other areas of the mythical national rural isolation (Las Hurdes) is presented as a virtual "means watertight." The spatial and temporal marking of the images, together with the look "objective" of the photographer, make this a document file social absolutely essential for the study of the Salamanca district of Sierra de France.