O trabalho precário como condição: as trajetórias ocupacionais de famílias de trabalhadores no Vale do Mamanguape

Abstract

Precarious work is a condition that has been historically present in the occupational trajectories of most of the individuals that belong the country's working class since the time of Colonial Brazil. Advances in labor legislation from the 1930s onwards and the great mobilizations of trade union organizations from the 1960s onwards, however, do not seem to have been enough to transform this reality. Although the conquest of rights and the increase in formalization is undeniable, the improvement in working conditions has not reached all regions of the country and not all sectors of the economy, leaving Brazil still far from claiming the supposed state of social welfare announced by other nations of the world. Opposite to that, what we observe in the country is that in recent years, following a worldwide trend, precarious work has expanded, reaching more sectors and diversifying its forms of manifestation, with the establishment of new labor relations that ascend with the neoliberal phase. of capitalism. Understand the reproduction and growth of precarious work in the Vale do Mamanguape over time, as well as documenting its different contours and the impact of these labor realities on the occupational trajectories of workers and their families (in their objective and subjective dimensions) is the main interest of this researcher, in tune with other recent formulations of the Sociology of Work. We also intend to analyze how the public authoritys and the main sectors of the regional economy relate to precariousness, pointing out that the appropriation and/or stimulation of non-regular forms of work are now part of the system of both.