Social Data is a project of the Observatory for Living and Working Conditions/Nova4Globe for the scientific dissemination of interdisciplinary data on work, sustainability, social inequality, health and living conditions in Portugal.
Social Data promotes partnerships with a variety of public and associative institutions, to carry out scientific studies, contribute to their dissemination and make social data related to living and working conditions in Portugal public and freely accessible.
Social Data is a project of the Observatory for Living and Working Conditions/Nova4Globe for the scientific dissemination of interdisciplinary data on work, sustainability, social inequality, health and living conditions in Portugal.
Social Data promotes partnerships with a variety of public and associative institutions, to carry out scientific studies, contribute to their dissemination and make social data related to living and working conditions in Portugal public and freely accessible.
“WHAT ARE LABOUR CONFLICTS?”
“Labour conflicts have occurred since Classical antiquity (everyone knows about the Spartacus slave revolt in 73-71 BC) and their incidence continues into the present. This fact by itself is a good reason for social scientists to study the phenomenon. Because labour disputes cause public unrest and economic losses there is also a reason for the world outside academia to investigate the occurrence. Let's not forget that labour conflicts are still an important feature of professional and political life. Although most workers and employers will probably never engage in such a dispute in their lifetime, the possibility (or threat) to vote with their feet is a part of negotiating labour conditions by unions and the rank and file. They have done so in the past and present..”
