Neoliberalism and productive restructuring: discussing the flexibilisation of labor rights in Brazil

Abstract

In this article, the authors aim to show that important changes required for conducting combined neoliberal restructuring productive mark the Brazilian capitalist society, producing serious loss of workers' rights, among them the labor. The qualitative research methodology used, having as north the perspective of totality, has enabled us reflections of the joint authors of the theses from "Public Policy for the Solidarity Economy: A Policy in Construction" (2008) and "Siege of labor rights and the crisis of the movement union in contemporary Brazil "(2009) and research" Ethics, Rights, Labour and Social Work: A Study in Penal System. “The documentary research used in the thesis” “Siege of labor rights and the crisis of the union movement in contemporary Brazil” (2009) provides the material used in the analysis of data on the Brazilian labor legislation since the first term until Cardoso's second term Lula. In the study of these data, there is a line of continuity between the two governments - Cardoso and Lula - fair to conclude that, over the years of neoliberal interference in Brazil, the prospect of governments has been translated into the realization of interests financial capital. Among various elements, the flexibility of labor rights has enabled this goal.