O agravamento da perda dos direitos dos trabalhadores na sociedade brasileira

Abstract

This work will address the progress and retrogression process of labor laws in Brazil. To this end, it was necessary to cover from fundamentals of work in the Capitalist Mode of Production (CMP) to the protoforms of labor and social laws in the world, so that one may comprehend the late development of such laws in the country. For that purpose, it is necessary to go through Brazilian historic periods, in particular through the so-called “Vargas Era”, when the CLT (Consolidation of Labor Laws, in the Portuguese acronym) was implemented, the military dictatorship and the strictness in social rights that period represented, the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the ideology of re-democratization in Brazil, finally coming to the neoliberal project, which still defines the post-1988 period. Such project intensified the retraction of workers’ rights by slashing social labor laws and by molding them from the capitalist perspective, in a subtle and gradual way. It is important to notice that the work, already organized as dictated by the so-called “market”, was also permeated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which reinforced the minimum conditions the working class has for its survival. Therefore, disguised as “social relief”, measures granted by the capital to workers, whose rights have acquired temporary and weakened characteristics, aim, above all, to obtain profit and the national economic development, even though such development occurs in degrading employment ways, already affirmed by neoliberalism.