Ser negra na precariedade das relações de trabalho

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

The present study objectives to excite some reflections about the conditions of life, work and the strategies of survival of the black women who find in the informality in Franca-SP, with emphasis on the domiciliary work. We started of an analysis on the deep alterations occurred in the last decades in the world of the work, that modified the forms to manage and to organize the productive processes in result of new imperatives of the capitalist order. As strategy of exit of the crises, the system itself created measures to give continuity to its ideas, as it occurred with the process of productive reorganization. In the presence of the new arrangements of the productive sector, we verify the growth of the unemployment, degradation of the work conditions by the dismounting of the labor laws long ago conquered and expansion of the informality, characterized for the non-accomplishment of the legislation and absence of social protection. In this horizon, it had an intensification of the under-agreements and of the domiciliary work, produced for the logic of the outsourcing. This is perceivable in the Franca scene, city located in the northeast region of the state of São Paulo and it has as economic power the production of the leather masculine footwear. The accomplishment of the respective research occurs in this locus. The domiciliary work, which does not correspond to any newness in Franca, takes a new dimension with its intensification in the context of the productive reorganization. The shoe industry of Franca starts to adopt the philosophy of reduction of the costs of the work force as strategy to consolidate itself in the capitalist market, resulting in successes for the leather-shoemarker branch and provoking the transference of productive processes, as the manual sewing of the footwear, to domiciliary surrounding it, marked for the precariousness and invisibly work relationships ...(Complete abstract click electronic access below)