Revista de Políticas Públicas (Jan 2014)
PRECARIZAÇÃO ESTRUTURAL DO TRABALHO NA CIVILIZAÇÃO DO CAPITAL EM CRISE: o precariado como enigma contemporâneo
Abstract
Within the context of the current civilization of capital, this article approaches the structural precariousness of labor, that tends to express a new work morphology, in the historical timeline of the capital crisis It highlights the new enlarged form of labor precariousness, within the limits of the “machine-facture process”, that brings forth experiences from different segments of workers giving shape to the estrangement of the “man-who-works” that is seen along his daily life. It demarcates the universality condition of the proletariat ,as an existence-related situation of men and women who live under the bourgeoisie, at a time of global capitalism. It analyses the surge and constitution of precariousness as a social stratum from the working class that is gaining space and visibility in major capitalist countries in this second decade of the twenty-first century. It delineates distinct analytic lines in search of explaining precariousness according to the new historical timeline of capital, amid its contradictions. It configures this precariousness-dominated stratum of workers in the articulation of factors such as age, education and insertion in the work force and the social world, questioning the fighting emancipation force of it. It sustains, as a mean of study, that the proletariat is establishing itself within the Brazilian scenario, shaping up the social basis of social movements that made their way to the Brazilian life in June and July of 2013. Finally, it affirms that precariousness of labor is a contemporaneous enigma to be solved by the critical and radical thinking within the current century.
