Mercado de trabalho e condições de trabalho no Brasil nos governos Lula e Dilma: entre ampliação e flexibilização

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the labor market and working conditions in Brazil in the period of the governments of the Workers Party, Lula (2003-2010) and Dilma (2011-2016), analyzing the relationship between labor market insertion and working conditions, in order to assess whether the expansion of the labor market that existed in this period was able to overcome the precariousness and flexibility existing in the Brazilian labor market. It is a qualitative-quantitative study, being carried out through bibliographical and documentary analysis, as well as the use of secondary data. For its construction, we start from the study of wage labor, as a way of expressing the relation of buying and selling of the labor force in the capitalist mode of production, to arrive at the particularity of the formation of the Brazilian labor market and its extension in the PT governments. The research will point out that there has been an expansion of the formal labor market in the country, although flexibility has not been overcome, allowing an increase in labor force turnover, explaining the contradiction that surrounds this conjuncture of wage, income and consumption expansion, but also of the rotation and flexibility of the workforce as a result of the productive restructuring conjuncture, which seeks to make labor relations increasingly flexible in order to increase the levels of profitability of capital.