A Classe trabalhadora frente às mudanças no perfil do assalariamento no Brasil

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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The present work discusses the social class concept applicability and its contemporaneousness for the analysis of the Brazilian society and intends to demonstrate who are the components of the working class nowadays. In a first moment, starting from the discussion of classical and modern sociological texts, we meant to ascertain an adequate model for analyzing the social classes in Brazil. Our understanding was that the social classes are defined by production relationships, or, being more precise, by the position occupied by the selected individual in the social division of labor. Regarding the working class, we considered the necessity of stretching out this concept, in order to engross all individuals and respective families that survive exclusively from the selling of their labor, together with the unemployed mass. Secondly, we show how, historically, Brazil has become an utterly capitalist country, enabling us to apply sociological tools used for the study of such social formation, in particular, the understanding that two are the most important classes in a capitalist society: the capitalists and the workers. So as to arise into a more precise definition of the Brazilian working class, we choose wages as the main focus of our analysis. From the data of 1980 and 2000 Brazilian economic census, we observed waging as being the main entry point for the Brazilians in the working world and that industrial jobs have been loosing space due to an increase on outsourcing of services. As for that, it becomes more relevant the idea that the concept of working class is not limited to a unique job specialty but extensive to all forms of paid work, the same as with the capital, which expands itself to the most diverse types of economical activities. Our conclusion points out the remaining of waged work as the core element in the Brazilian social organization and evidences the complexity of analyzing the contemporaneous Brazilian working class due to changes in its structure (in special its fragmentation), which has been happening over the last decades.

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sociologia assalariamento classe trabalhadora working class social classes waging classes sociais

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