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The profound transformation of political, economical and social order in capitalist and globalized societies generated by advances in science, electronics, computer and robotic industries are reflected in the collectivity and modes of organization of the world of work. Adolescents and young people are affected by these changes, presenting various psychical manifestations forward to choosing their professions, denouncing the malaise and suffering being experienced by them on the unpredictable change of the process and the expectations generated by it. This is a theoretical paper in which we articulate the difficulties and dilemmas that involve the professional choice in adolescence to unconscious psychic determinations of this process and the grief that the adolescent will need to do in order to be able to opt for a profession. From the Freudian and Lacanian framework, we performed a study of the concept of adolescence that articulated at the professional choice and fragments of clinical cases revealed the following conclusions: 1. In human choices are involved many psychological processes that started in childhood, in adolescence are updated, determining the choices of the adolescents, including their Professional ones; 2. The symbolic elaboration of separation from parents in childhood, and the grief related to loss and waivers related to bodily changes and infant objects, so that the adolescent can access their desire and support their possibility of choice; 3. Listening to the unconscious dimension present in the subject's choices in the professional field is essential to an analysis of the difficulties that have arisen therein to meet individual outputs to the same. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article aims to present ongoing research on one of the segments that have been most active in the state of Paraná, Brazil: the computer industry. This industry is a core sector of the so-called "new economy", either for its nature or for the announced possibilities of "transformed labor", as proposed by some authors. The sociological issues that arise from this sector prompted us to study its dynamics, processes and labor patterns. Given the complexity of the field, we have focused on companies that produce computer hardware (assembly of desktops, notebooks, servers and components) and those that design software (computer programs). At the center of this industry lies its workforce, immersed under the banner of new organizational paradigms, namely, more flexible forms of labor and contractual relations. The reality of labor and workers in this sector allows for critical analysis of theses that defend that we are heading towards an era of emancipated work that is friendlier, healthier and free of the constraints imposed by Fordism and Taylorism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Being one of the most popularized measures of education policy taken by the latest Portuguese governments, the so-called enrichment activities for primary school pupils can also stimulate a reflection upon the effects of dualism in the workplace -- here viewed as the co-presence and cooperation, in the same institution, of workers with equivalent functions though with quite different contractual conditions. Based empirically on the experience of one of the authors in several primary schools in a suburban city near Lisbon, the article presents dualism and work precariousness as predictable results of the implementation of a political program that articulates several organizational processes -- from the Ministry of Education, to mayors and partner entities, to each primary school --, having as common denominator the intention of rendering public educational services more flexible via the use of easily dispensable workforce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is wide agreement that the economic development of regions can be obtained by its capacity of innovation. The concept of innovation has evolved in recent decades from compelling focus on business to a broader idea, that is beyond firms, wich envolves the interaction of a set of actors who have the common aim, the innovation. This paper, through case study on the Cluster of Software firms in Curitiba, intends to map the potential actors that constitute a Local System of Innovation in Software. In general, it is noticed the presence of the actors able to perform the tasks necessary to build a Local System of Innovation. Nevertheless, those actors do not provide sufficiently mature relationships with local software companies. In this sense the cluster of software firms of Curitiba, despite being a dynamic Cluster can not be considered an Innovation System. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]