A Terceirização no Brasil: velho e novo fenômeno

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze current service outsourcing in Brazil. The process of flexibilization and increasing precariousness of labour in Brazil is discussed, focusing on service outsourcing/subcontracting, as one of the major policies for labour management and organization in the productive restructuring scenario. It presents a summary of the service outsourcing/subcontracting process during recent years in Brazil, bearing in mind its old and new modalities. It furthermore analyses the latest empiric results regarding service outsourcing/subcontracting in industries with high risks for the environment and for workers´ health, in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador/Bahia/Brazil. Moreover, it indicates the major forms of resistance and anti-establishment movements that were developed against the increasing precariousness of labour and against service outsourcing.

Keywords

• work
• increasing precariousness
• service outsourcing