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Para onde vai o mercado de trabalho? : a tendência à precarização das relações de trabalho : um estudo da região metropolitana de Porto Alegre
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Toni, M. J.-R. De |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | The “precarizacao” of employment and labor relations has been pointed out in social sciences and economic literature as one of the main problems related to the transformation of the capitalist system, which occurred since the last quarter of the XX century, as a result of the crisis of the capitalist system. In Brazil these changes, linked to the restructuring of the production process and the labor reorganization, occurred more intensely from the early nineties onwards, in a context marked with the opening of the economy to the international trade, with the increase of the competition between firms and with the rise of the neo-liberal ideology. Bearing in mind this scenario the main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of these processes on the Brazilian society and, in particular on its labor force. The focus of the analysis is placed on the disorganization of labor relations and, in particular, on the spread of precarious forms of work, which broke away from the previous patterns of inclusive labor relations, based on fordism — protected and legally founded wage relationships in the labor market. As a first step the impact of the aforementioned changes on the labor force in the advanced capitalist societies is analyzed, highlighting the debate regarding to the issues of the centrality of work in the most industrialized market economies and the consequences of the tendency of increase of precarious forms of work. As a second step we investigate the impact of these changes in the Brazilian society. To develop this part of the study historical characteristics of the nation — as a peripheral capitalist society —, as well as the recent process of abrupt insertion of the country in the global economy were taken into account. The discussion of the literature took into consideration the advancements of the debate concerning the notion of “precarizacao”. At first, in this thesis it is argued that our societies are in a period of transition from the fordism model towards another(s) one, in which the “precarizacao” of the work has been playing an important role, so far. Although this concept is related to the informal sector approach, we discuss the similarities and the differences between the notion of “precarizacao” and that of the informal sector. Furthermore, considering we are facing new phenomena, we emphasize the need of more empirical research and further theoretical discussion in order to develop conceptual vocabulary to improve its understanding. In order to apprehend different levels of precariousness at work a specific methodology was developed including three main analytical strategies: 1) the classification of the workers into occupational categories; 2) the definition of variables and indicators to characterize the forms of insertion of the labor force in the labor market, in order |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://cdn.fee.tche.br/teses/teses_fee_08.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
