The COLLECTITUDE project aims to analyse current and future transformations in the world of work at times of precarity, by researching the relationship between precarisation, on the one hand, and agency and social transformation, on the other, developing a new analytical perspective that is able to articulate this double movement and to capture both national and transnational social processes underway. A comparative analysis is being conducted in Portugal focusing on the construction sector (high level of unskilled and low paid workers) and the cultural sector (highly qualified but with unstable work). The project is been developed at a civil society organisation (A3S) through an interdisciplinary, participatory and multi-method approach. The project investigates the political economy of precarisation, its effects on livelihood, and how collective initiatives and solidarity economies can evolve under precarious conditions of work.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 841164.