Capitalismo dependente e superexploração do trabalho: um debate necessário para o Serviço Social

Abstract

The present work deals with a theoretical research about the central category of the political economy of dependency, the overexploitation of the workforce. Its objective is to reflect on the modalities of overexploitation ofthe workforce and to highlight the importance of apprehending this category for training courses in Social Work. The research methodology includes a bibliographical review, using classic authors and interpreters of the Marxist Theory of Dependency as references. From the study of the relationships that are established between countries with a central economy and countries with a peripheral economy, more precisely the particularity of capitalist accumulation in countries with a dependent economy, it appears that the processes of exploitation of the working class in these countries are expressed such as the violation of the workforce beyond normal limits. Thus, we defend the need for a debate on this theme in the professional training of Social Workers, since the understanding and consequent professional intervention in the immediate manifestations of the social issue present in this context of dependent capitalism, require an analysis of the particularities of overexploitation in the Brazilian social formation.