Informalidade e precarização do trabalho na reestruturação produtiva contemporânea

Abstract

The present work of conclusion of the course, entitled "INFORMALITY AND PRECARIZATION OF WORK IN CONTEMPORARY PRODUCTIVE RESTRUCTURING", results from a theoretical research in the bibliographic and documentary modalities. We aim to investigate the phenomenon of informality in its first expressions, with home work in large industry, 18th century, and fundamentally its contemporary configuration after the 1980s. Anchored in the foundations of Marxian theory, it apprehends that informal work has links with capitalist production since its origins, because it makes it possible to reduce the costs of the work process. We identified that home work has the same characteristics of precariousness as informal work that is configured in contemporary times. With the structural crisis of capital in the 1970s, there was a deepening of the system's contradictions. In order to restore the pattern of accumulation and the high rates of profitability that previously existed, the productive restructuring process was initiated / 1980. In this context, informality is reissued and its contemporary expressions are more heterogeneous and complex. The research revealed that the expansion of informality is functionally adapted to the flexible character imposed by Toyotist production and advances from the outsourcing processes of labor relations. The analysis of the data reveals that the phenomenon expands mainly in times of crisis and political and economic adjustments, informality represents precarious forms of work, the deregulation of labor rights conquered historically, a much more intense, atypical and unstable work. We approach the two theoretical perspectives [dualist and non-dualist] that discuss informality and how the dualist perspective has been gaining ground through the opportunism of liberal discourse. In the context of the covid-19 pandemic, the impacts for workers in the informality field were even greater, this demonstrates that, the “supposed” autonomy of workers, in fact, is not configured in reality as it is propagated by the liberal speech of entrepreneurship. Thus, we understand that informal work, since its genesis, expresses forms of increased subordination from work to capital and countless losses for the worker.