Members of the Executive Committee

Alice Abreu Brazil

Dr. Abreus whole academic career was linked to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she occupied many different functions, among which Head of Department of Sociology and Head of the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology, and where she was Full Professor of Sociology. President of ISA Research Committee 30 Sociology of Work, at the end of her second mandate, and member of the Executive Committee of the ISA, for which post she is seeking reelection. From 1999 to 2003 she was the Vice President of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil. For the last three years she was at the Organization of American States, in Washington DC, first as the Head of the Office of Science and Technology and then of the Office of Education, Science and Technology, where she was responsible for organizing the high level ministerial dialogue in five areas, Education, Culture, Social Development, Labour and Science and Technology, leading to the establishment of hemispheric priorities and the development of horizontal cooperation among the countries of the region. She has published extensively, mainly in Sociology of Work and Gender and Work. Two of her main publications are: (1) Regional development and new labour strategies: trade unions and the new car plants in Resende, Brazil.(with José Ricardo Ramalho) in: Dan Cornfield & Holly McCammon (eds.), Labor Revitalization. Ohio State University: Jai Press, 2003; (2) The Dream Factory. VW’s Modular Production System in Resende, Brazil. (with Huw Beynon and José Ricardo Ramalho) Work Employment and Society, v.14, n.2, p.265 - 282, 2000.

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