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This article analyzes the different oppression and privilege systems related to gender, class or origin, experimented by women who participate in temporary work programs. The empirical data comes from ethnographic research. The proposal is located in the recognition of the difference between women, a topic in contemporary feminist theory. We rely on intersectionality to make visible the multiple discriminations that women perceive in their everyday life, and the intersection of the hierarchical axes in the international labour market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cause of the big cities concentration of artists has been gaining centrality in academic research as it has been underlined its importance for the creative industries. The research of this phenomenon is usually based on economic clustering theories, which only take into account infrastructural factors of the location. Although this approach has been increasingly criticized and social interactions have been considered more important, the contributions of sociology of artistic professions or urban sociology have been mostly ignored. Taking into account the results of these sociological perspectives a the research proposes a more multidimensional and a more critical point of view towards the agglomeration artistic phenomenon, considering it as a functional phenomenon of postfordist economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The crowd category, developed by the Italian philosopher Antonio Negri and his colleagues, is presented as an alternative to link various struggles in the same emancipatory project, without voiding its uniqueness or converging in one identity, but uniting them by what they share in common. However, there are problems when it comes to thinking political action, since it is not clear how the crowd can act politically without sharing some interests and a world view or defining a common antagonist. This article examines these issues from a sociological rather than philosophical perspective. In the first part, we study the concept of multitude, its main critiques and its difficulties to explain political action. The second part analyzes the reformulation of the class struggle on which the category crowd is based using a dialogue with the Marxist tradition that explained the political action of the working class and identifies its main limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay, in Gramscian code, approaches the Colombian juncture of the last decade, thinking about it in terms of the antagonistic dynamic between presidential exceptionalism and democratic resistance of the subalterns, the constitutional multitude, in a global era marked by the hegemonic domination of Post-Fordism, understood as a new regime of capitalist accumulation and confronting decolonialism as a plural alternative for procuring autonomy in which a collective, multicultural political subject is forged that unleashes a war of positions with the dominating oligarchic bloc, where the principal hegemonic dispute takes place in terms of social and democratic equality that puts tension on the order sanctioned by the 1991 Constitution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research raises the effects that have had the different sort of labor organizations (Fordism and post-Fordism) in education. During the last decades, we attend to a situation of essential changes, in which the Fordism and Taylorism work organization form has been moved into new ones, called neo-Fordism, post-Fordism, flexible specialization. These changes within the economic and political reform seem to configure an answer to capitalist crisis in order to recover the lost cost-effectiveness levels. However we can not talk about a straight correlation between work organization types and educational field, many ideas and practices demonstrate that these work organizations had and still have an influence on educational ideas and practices. With Fordism and Taylorism speech, some changes are been introduced into education such as fragmented knowledge, positive and negative reinforcements, personalized assessment to each student, cost-effectiveness control, new sort of selection and professional training. With this new kind of labor organization, the education gains new duties based on "flexibility and adaptation skills" that must also have school establishments, the experts, managers and teachers in order to offer answers to unpredictable facts, singular situations or potential customers demands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se presenta una introducción en la que el autor comenta sobre los artículos en este número, incluyendo uno sobre la enfermería en América Latina, uno sobre el mercado de trabajo postfordista y uno sobre la masculinidad.