O Agronegócio e o problema do trabalho infantil

This article attempts to identify and analyze the motives that led several sectors of agro-business to engage in the struggle for the eradication of child labor in Brazil, as launched by international organizations for the defense of children's and adolescents' rights. It is our hypothesis that economic globalization and the internationalization of children's rights have given visibility to the problem of child labor, thus demanding the mobilization of entrepreneurial sectors linked to agro-business productive chains in Brazil. The article is divided into four inter-related sections. In the first one, we attempt to provide evidence for the interference of social and labor problems within the ambit of the economic activities of the agro-business sector, within the current context of globalization. This is followed by a study of major UN, UNICEF and ILO investments to internalize children's rights and policies to combat child labor, giving salience to their repercussions in Brazil. In the third section, we analyze strategies adopted by firms linked to agro-business with the purpose of avoiding the use of child labor within their productive chains. Finally, we seek to understand the motivations that have led agro-businessmen to take part in the struggle against child labor. We conclude that firms linked to agro-business took up the project of combating child labor in virtue of the internationalization of children and adolescents' rights, the inclusion of social issues in international markets, the intensification of the fiscalization of public power, the growth of action around entrepreneurial social responsibility and increased consumer consciousness.

Consolidação de eixos de desenvolvimento econômico no Estado de São Paulo: dinâmica industrial, transporte e logística

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Estudo da competitividade em empresas industriais: o caso do arranjo produtivo local (APL) de Votuporanga

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Espanhol-língua estrangeira para brasileiros: políticas de difusão e formação de professores no Estado de São Paulo

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Os movimentos sociais de juventude e os direitos dos jovens no Brasil

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Trajetórias de assentamentos rurais: experiências em balanço

Este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar o complexo processo de constituição de oito experências de assentamentos rurais, no tocante ao seu desenvolvimento econômico e político-organizacional, localizados em regiões distintas do Estado de São Paulo. Trajetórias diferenciadas entre si marcam essas experiências, os aspectos organizacionais incidem de forma diferenciada sobre a evolução econômica, não havendo uma relação de causalidade entre desempenho econômico, existência de dissensões e alternativas de organização. Pulverização e competição são fatores presentes na tentativa de construção de um novo modo de vida. Constata-se significativa pressão para que esses novos agricultores se mtegrem ao complexo agroindustnal e ao processo de globalização econômica hoje em curso.

Processo judicial previdenciário: a necessária mudança de paradigma para a efetividade da política de previdencia social no Brasil

Pós-graduação em Direito - FCHS

A luta pela independência na Guiné-Bissau e os caminhos do projeto educativo do PAIGC: etnicidade como problema na construção de uma identidade nacional

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Globalização, desemprego e (nova) pobreza: estudo sobre impactes nas sodiedades portuguesa e brasileira

This article reflects upon the possible connections between the processes of economic globalization, changes in the labour market and the new forms of poverty. The debate is framed by two different economic contexts: Portugal (characterized by slow and insufficient growth rates, a serious social crisis, and difficulties in asserting itself economically and politically in the European and world contexts) and Brazil (a dynamic emerging economy, with high growth rates and receding poverty levels). This allows us to assess some of the economic and social impacts arising from the global pressure to be economically competitive, which have led to new forms of poverty, social precariousness and job insecurity in both societies.

The role of the state in health public policies: an overview of the debate on the concept of State and the Brazilian case

This article is the result of a narrative literature review. The objective is to show the development of an overview on the ideological debate on the design of state health policies. We argue that the role of the state in the development of health policy, even under the pressure of the global market, may create alternatives to promote and drive economic and social development, meaning they are not subject to economic constraints imposed by the liberal ideal of market. Here is a part of a theoretical discussion about the construction and presence of the State in Latin America, particularly in Brazil. We take the approaches of the Marxist tradition and liberal to the issue as reference. This discussion allows us to understand the historical role of the state in the maintenance of social policies, specifically health, is an alternative to public control eases the intense capital mobility promoted by economic globalization. In this sense, the theme makes the Brazilian health an important issue of social sciences, why is the historicity of the construction of the Brazilian health system, as a public policy that can mirror the actual reconstruction of the institutional framework of the Brazilian state with the establishment instances of negotiation between the various spheres of power that strengthen the state in this process of democratization of Brazilian society.