Retrat de Xavier Orteu

Director of Insercoop

Director of Insercoop, a social initiative cooperative that works in the realm of job placement and career guidance.

He lectures in the Master’s Degree in Employment and the Labour Market: Intervention and Coaching for Work at the UOC [Open University of Catalonia]. As a researcher, he is a member of the Social Education Research Group (GRES). He is the author of several books: La construcción de itinerarios de inserción laboral [The Construction of Job Placement Itineraries] (Gedisa, 2007), Trabajo y vínculo social [Work and Social Bond] (UOC, 2012) and Desafíos en un mercado laboral en transformación [Challenges in a Changing Labour Market] (UOC, 2017). He regularly contributes to the digital newspaper Social.cat.

Articles by Xavier Orteu

Il·lustració © Maria Corte
The futures of workEffects of the transformation of work

At a time of shortage of work, an individualistic approach that focuses the management of what is public on private interests leads us to compete for existing jobs and to blame...

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