Banca de DEFESA: SAMUEL NOGUEIRA COSTA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : SAMUEL NOGUEIRA COSTA
DATE: 08/08/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Brasília
TITLE:

Union Action in Brazil: representativy challenges and strategies on the context of the total outsourcing

KEY WORDS:

Union action. Outsourcing. Representativity. Production restructuring. Neoliberalism.

PAGES: 312
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

Since the comprehensive process of global capitalist restructuring that started in the 1970s, a New Era of transformation has brought unprecedent textures to the contemporary productive world. In this context of a global offensive of the capital over labor, outsourcing has become the most elementary attribute of flexible capitalism, thus acquiring a remarkable emphasis in social, political, and economical spheres, for it is used to make contracts flexible, downsize salaries, lower the permanence time on work placements, other than impairing the establishment of affective connections between the workers. Given its ability to reconfigure not only the labor’s environment, but also the organization of union representativity, both from the point of view of the union as an institution as well as a (union’s) movement, outsourcing is well established as the zeitgeist of contemporary capitalism, moreover in its total version, as it was expanded to all productive activities through the modification of the juridical understanding of the Law 13.429, of March 31st, 2017. This thesis seeks to explore the union experience from a complex and multicausal totality, relating the effects of total outsourcing of the labor’s world to the unions political action, however, with regards to the choices of class entities strategies in the face of the representativity crisis that, as signaled, has a strong relationship with conduct based on a neoliberal rationality that aims exclusively to sectorial interests, supporting the claim that the restructuring had the unions’ endorsement. The search is to verify, among other elements, how much of the quantitative shift related to union’s associates is openly linked to ties of a structural nature; and how much of it would be compatible with the preferences of the labor’s agents, of the State’s agents and of the capital’s agents. What one may observe empirically is that the progress of outsourcing and of other productive restructuring forms did not happen only against unions, therefore their action was present in strategical sectors to promote such modifications. If there is a crisis, it is not because unions lack alternatives, but, in opposition, it is a representativity crisis, born from neo-corporative political practices.

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