PRECARIOUSNESS OF LABOR: THE FUNCTION OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

Taking into account the growing number of public policies on professional qualification concerning youth, we present the results of a research whose target was to analyze the ways of integration Brazilian youngsters in wok market. Having as a methodological strategy the analyze of professional qualification political programs and data analyze published by the Work Ministry and the Inter-tradeunionist of Statistics and Socioeconomical Studies (Dieese) and having as theoretical approach the literature on Brazilian wok market and the youth policies, it is argued that public professional qualification policies, particularly the youth oriented ones,deepened in Lula’s and kept on in Dilmas’ government, once based on the development of labor competencies aiming at both strengthening employability and forming entrepreneurs, reinforces meritocratic ideologies as well as individualizes the way of coping with problems related to unemployment, therefore, exempts the State from its social and political responsibility to cope with capitalism unstructured logic. We have concluded that such policy is directly articulated with bad public school quality and compose a functional bloc with the capital reproduction process and intensification of worker exploitation; aiming, basically, subjective and technical adjustment of labor force to precarious job positions.