O Trabalho e o labirinto da responsabilidade socioempresarial:a experiência da cidadania empresarial do Banco do Brasil

In the current systemic crisis, economic policy is directed to correct the consequences of the functioning of this metabolism, but within the limits of the capital. From this perspective, decision makers propose trade policies, agricultural and industrial to ensure conditions for economic growth. However, as a dead end, there is failure of the State in giving efficacy to the operation of all segments of the economy, especially given the budget constraint. Public managers are forced to seek external resources, resuming the cycle of political allegiance to the interests of international financial and banking representatives, installed in so-called multilateral. The complex ideological capital comes into play in trying to convince society that the paths taken by governments are inevitable, and that capitalism can be "humanized", even with the realization of the growing inequalities caused by historical irrationalism of the production process of capital . In this sense, emerging concepts that attempt to demonstrate the compatibility of the system to real human needs. This ideological offensive is intended to legitimize the capital. The so-called third sector has a special highlight with the concept of corporate social responsibility. It creates a political environment in which the inevitable mix-up with new illusions offered by and often funding the metabolism of capital in order to perpetuate this system. In this context, political elites, and considerable portions of the academy, embark on "waves of capitalist optimism," while the sociometabolismo capital expands its historical limits, driving forces postponing their collapse, but that cause human suffering and ecological stress. Wars are disseminated to strengthen the deadly war industry and the automobile industry; and devastating the environment of which depends the capital system. In this scenario disassemble, propositions emerge around a "new social pact" in order to minimize the adverse effects of the dynamics of reproduction of capital. The business class is called to exercise its role through the discourse that appeals to social responsibility programs, in order to intervene directly in the "social question". The core of this research is precisely this point. Although there is considerable scholarship on the phenomenon of Social Responsibility and Corporate Citizenship, there is also an evident lack of this approach focused on the banking sector in Brazil. The importance of rentier capital increased ownership of shares in the wealth produced by all of Brazilian society, justifies a sociological research project on Social Responsibility in the domestic financial sector. In this sense, it was decided to perform a dynamic approach to the "Corporate Citizenship" in the banking industry, specifically in the Bank of Brazil. As this is a key institution, is important analyze of the impacts of this strategy fetish of capitalist reproduction, in order to evaluate the social legitimization of rentier capital in Brazil. In this scenario of the abundance of the discourse on social responsibility there exist a progressive impoverishment of professional work in this segment in Brazil. There is a dramatic mismatch between rhetoric and practice because of the trend of deepening vulnerability of the working conditions of the Brazilian bank worker, from the 1990's. In the specific case of the Bank of Brazil, the first initiative of the institution was to conform to the principles of the UNO and the Ethos Institute, aiming to align their domestic policies to this new strategy of domination of capital. The purpose is to place the Bank in the ideological sphere of corporate social responsibility, just as with its partners in the private financial intercapitalist competition. Indeed, in the internal ambit of the Bank of Brazil, there is a policy to adjust its functional segments to the doctrine of Social Corporate Responsibility. The concepts of this doctrine is presented as something inexorable. There are no alternatives. The Bank of Brazil operates in a highly competitive market, the segment featuring the dominance of financial capital accumulation today. For this reason it can not fail to incorporate the technological advances organizational. For employees there is no alternative but to adapt to this new set of ideas proposed by the metabolism of capital

Neoextractivismo, neodesarrollismo y proceso de acumulación de capital : ¿Superando el ciclo stop-and-go? Argentina, 2003-2012

Argentina ha entrado en una etapa de acumulación capitalista estabilizada bajo un nuevo proyecto de desarrollo hegemónico. Este proyecto avanza en la conformación de un patrón de acumulación de capital que busca superar las contradicciones entre el eje extractivista-rentista y el eje industrialista de las fracciones dominantes del capital. En esta ponencia discutiremos sí y de qué manera el histórico par campo-industria analizado en los clásicos modelos de acumulación à la Diamand, habrían perdido relevancia. Buscaremos analizar cómo las contradicciones latentes pretenden ser desplazas y qué lugar tiene la contradicción entre el capital y el trabajo en la nueva etapa que se está abriendo. El trabajo se basará en una reflexión histórico-conceptual apoyada en estadísticas construidas a partir de la información provista por los organismos públicos de estadísticas

Neoextractivismo, neodesarrollismo y proceso de acumulación de capital : ¿Superando el ciclo stop-and-go? Argentina, 2003-2012

Argentina ha entrado en una etapa de acumulación capitalista estabilizada bajo un nuevo proyecto de desarrollo hegemónico. Este proyecto avanza en la conformación de un patrón de acumulación de capital que busca superar las contradicciones entre el eje extractivista-rentista y el eje industrialista de las fracciones dominantes del capital. En esta ponencia discutiremos sí y de qué manera el histórico par campo-industria analizado en los clásicos modelos de acumulación à la Diamand, habrían perdido relevancia. Buscaremos analizar cómo las contradicciones latentes pretenden ser desplazas y qué lugar tiene la contradicción entre el capital y el trabajo en la nueva etapa que se está abriendo. El trabajo se basará en una reflexión histórico-conceptual apoyada en estadísticas construidas a partir de la información provista por los organismos públicos de estadísticas

Neoextractivismo, neodesarrollismo y proceso de acumulación de capital : ¿Superando el ciclo stop-and-go? Argentina, 2003-2012

Argentina ha entrado en una etapa de acumulación capitalista estabilizada bajo un nuevo proyecto de desarrollo hegemónico. Este proyecto avanza en la conformación de un patrón de acumulación de capital que busca superar las contradicciones entre el eje extractivista-rentista y el eje industrialista de las fracciones dominantes del capital. En esta ponencia discutiremos sí y de qué manera el histórico par campo-industria analizado en los clásicos modelos de acumulación à la Diamand, habrían perdido relevancia. Buscaremos analizar cómo las contradicciones latentes pretenden ser desplazas y qué lugar tiene la contradicción entre el capital y el trabajo en la nueva etapa que se está abriendo. El trabajo se basará en una reflexión histórico-conceptual apoyada en estadísticas construidas a partir de la información provista por los organismos públicos de estadísticas

Capital Works Procurement: The Selection of a Building Procurement Method

The determination of the most appropriate procurement method for capital works projects is a challenging task for the Department of Housing and Works (DHW) and other Western Australian State Government Agencies because of the array of assessment criteria that are considered and the procurement methods that are available. A number of different procurement systems can be used to deliver capital works projects such a traditional, design and construct and management. Sub-classifications of these systems have proliferated and continue to emerge in response to market demands. The selection of an inappropriate procurement method may lead to undesirable project outcomes. To facilitate DHW in selecting an appropriate procurement method for its capital works projects, a six step procurement method selection process is presented. The characteristics of the most common forms of procurement method used in Australia are presented. Case studies where procurement methods have been used for specific types of capital works in Western Australia are offered to provide a reference point and learning opportunity for procurement method selection.