Nuria Sánchez Madrid is Full Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, co-coordinator of the Research Group GINEDIS and member of the INSTIFEM UCM.Pablo López Álvarez is Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Society at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

"This incisive book reveals how neoliberalism has reshaped work in Spain and Portugal, driving widespread precarity and entrenching exploitation. Combining sharp theoretical insight with rigorous ethnographic research, it lays bare how these transformations fracture lives, deepen inequalities, and undermine democratic protections. From call centers to care work, gig economies, and the renewal of trade union struggles, these essays illuminate the everyday realities of social suffering and trace how diverse resistances are nevertheless emerging to reclaim work as a vital space for social justice and political contestation."

• IntroductionNuria Sánchez Madrid and Pablo López ÁlvarezSECTION 1: NEOLIBERAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF WORKChapter 1: “Work without Future”: Neoliberal Precarity, Horizons of Worthy Living and Generational Dispossession in the Portuguese Call Center SectorPatrícia Alves FonsecaChapter 2: Producing the Subject “Delivery”. Spanish Migrant Workers and Central-European Platformized WorkPablo López CalleChapter 3: Precarity and New Forms of Labor: The Recent Transformation of Spanish Labor Legislation and the Question of AutonomyJorge del Arco and Alfredo SánchezSECTION 2: CRITICAL ACCOUNTS OF DOMINATION AT WORKChapter 4: Body, Erotic Capital, and Union Resistance in Spain José Luis Moreno Pestaña and Francisco CarballoChapter 5: Revisiting the Housing Question. Work, Race, Gender and Real Estate Violence in SpainNuria Sánchez Madrid and Guillermo López MorlanesChapter 6: Researching on a Thin Line: the Precarity of Researchers in Portugal and Its ConsequencesGonçalo Marcelo and Joana RicarteChapter 7: The Long Path to Recognition: Remarks on the Spanish Situation of Care Work and TechnologizationBelén Liedo and Clara NavarroSECTION 3: NORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES ABOUT THE CRISIS OF WORKChapter 8: Governing Work. Legal Reforms, Intensification of Work and Strategic Precarization in Spain (2008-2022)Pablo López Álvarez and Sergio VegaChapter 9: Labor Precariousness in Portugal: Themes, Actors and Challenges of Labor RegulationHermes Augusto CostaChapter 10: Trade Unions in the Age of Digitalization: Challenges and Opportunities in the Transport and Food Delivery SectorsDora Fonseca About the Contributors

Nuria Sánchez Madrid is Full Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, co-coordinator of the Research Group GINEDIS and member of the INSTIFEM UCM.Pablo López Álvarez is Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Society at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

"This incisive book reveals how neoliberalism has reshaped work in Spain and Portugal, driving widespread precarity and entrenching exploitation. Combining sharp theoretical insight with rigorous ethnographic research, it lays bare how these transformations fracture lives, deepen inequalities, and undermine democratic protections. From call centers to care work, gig economies, and the renewal of trade union struggles, these essays illuminate the everyday realities of social suffering and trace how diverse resistances are nevertheless emerging to reclaim work as a vital space for social justice and political contestation."

• IntroductionNuria Sánchez Madrid and Pablo López ÁlvarezSECTION 1: NEOLIBERAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF WORKChapter 1: “Work without Future”: Neoliberal Precarity, Horizons of Worthy Living and Generational Dispossession in the Portuguese Call Center SectorPatrícia Alves FonsecaChapter 2: Producing the Subject “Delivery”. Spanish Migrant Workers and Central-European Platformized WorkPablo López CalleChapter 3: Precarity and New Forms of Labor: The Recent Transformation of Spanish Labor Legislation and the Question of AutonomyJorge del Arco and Alfredo SánchezSECTION 2: CRITICAL ACCOUNTS OF DOMINATION AT WORKChapter 4: Body, Erotic Capital, and Union Resistance in Spain José Luis Moreno Pestaña and Francisco CarballoChapter 5: Revisiting the Housing Question. Work, Race, Gender and Real Estate Violence in SpainNuria Sánchez Madrid and Guillermo López MorlanesChapter 6: Researching on a Thin Line: the Precarity of Researchers in Portugal and Its ConsequencesGonçalo Marcelo and Joana RicarteChapter 7: The Long Path to Recognition: Remarks on the Spanish Situation of Care Work and TechnologizationBelén Liedo and Clara NavarroSECTION 3: NORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES ABOUT THE CRISIS OF WORKChapter 8: Governing Work. Legal Reforms, Intensification of Work and Strategic Precarization in Spain (2008-2022)Pablo López Álvarez and Sergio VegaChapter 9: Labor Precariousness in Portugal: Themes, Actors and Challenges of Labor RegulationHermes Augusto CostaChapter 10: Trade Unions in the Age of Digitalization: Challenges and Opportunities in the Transport and Food Delivery SectorsDora Fonseca About the Contributors

Nuria Sánchez Madrid is Full Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, co-coordinator of the Research Group GINEDIS and member of the INSTIFEM UCM.Pablo López Álvarez is Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Society at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).

"This incisive book reveals how neoliberalism has reshaped work in Spain and Portugal, driving widespread precarity and entrenching exploitation. Combining sharp theoretical insight with rigorous ethnographic research, it lays bare how these transformations fracture lives, deepen inequalities, and undermine democratic protections. From call centers to care work, gig economies, and the renewal of trade union struggles, these essays illuminate the everyday realities of social suffering and trace how diverse resistances are nevertheless emerging to reclaim work as a vital space for social justice and political contestation."

• IntroductionNuria Sánchez Madrid and Pablo López ÁlvarezSECTION 1: NEOLIBERAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF WORKChapter 1: “Work without Future”: Neoliberal Precarity, Horizons of Worthy Living and Generational Dispossession in the Portuguese Call Center SectorPatrícia Alves FonsecaChapter 2: Producing the Subject “Delivery”. Spanish Migrant Workers and Central-European Platformized WorkPablo López CalleChapter 3: Precarity and New Forms of Labor: The Recent Transformation of Spanish Labor Legislation and the Question of AutonomyJorge del Arco and Alfredo SánchezSECTION 2: CRITICAL ACCOUNTS OF DOMINATION AT WORKChapter 4: Body, Erotic Capital, and Union Resistance in Spain José Luis Moreno Pestaña and Francisco CarballoChapter 5: Revisiting the Housing Question. Work, Race, Gender and Real Estate Violence in SpainNuria Sánchez Madrid and Guillermo López MorlanesChapter 6: Researching on a Thin Line: the Precarity of Researchers in Portugal and Its ConsequencesGonçalo Marcelo and Joana RicarteChapter 7: The Long Path to Recognition: Remarks on the Spanish Situation of Care Work and TechnologizationBelén Liedo and Clara NavarroSECTION 3: NORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES ABOUT THE CRISIS OF WORKChapter 8: Governing Work. Legal Reforms, Intensification of Work and Strategic Precarization in Spain (2008-2022)Pablo López Álvarez and Sergio VegaChapter 9: Labor Precariousness in Portugal: Themes, Actors and Challenges of Labor RegulationHermes Augusto CostaChapter 10: Trade Unions in the Age of Digitalization: Challenges and Opportunities in the Transport and Food Delivery SectorsDora Fonseca About the Contributors