"The experience of job seeking: interactions, experiences and meanings", author Priscila Faria Vieira, 2013, Annablume Publisher/CEM; Fapesp/CNPq, 284 pages (in Portuguese).

From the investigations carried out by the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CMS/INCT/CEPID, this book looks into the act of job seeking via institutions of labor intermediation. The author develops an analysis assuming that the act of looking for a job cannot be reduced to an economic phenomenon, based on a rational calculus, which joins suppliers and demanders of jobs nor can be treated as simple strategic indicator of unemployment as certain sociology perspectives assume.

On the contrary, the book shows that searching for a job is a social, moral and subjective experience and, in this sense, it becomes fundamental to understand the interactions as well as the everyday experiences lived by job seekers. The analysis was based on an empirical investigation conducted between 2005 and 2009 in downtown São Paulo city, specifically on Barão de Itapetininga Street with the highest spatial concentration of job agencies in the Metropolitan Region, which is the largest market for labor intermediation in Brazil. The analytical techniques included ethnographic observation, interviews with agents involved in the process and the analysis of documentation. 

The book was released in late April and is available in major bookstores.