A trajetória de trabalhadores da cidade de pelotas (RS): a vida, o trabalho e as disposições.

Abstract

The structurally precarious and unstable labor society in Brazil imposes labor relationships on workers that are increasingly intense and exhausting. In the cracks of this structure, social actors who make a living from work try to adapt and readapt to new work configurations that increasingly assume aspects of neoliberal capitalism. Thus, the main objective of this thesis is to analyze whether new work configurations and labor reform in Brazil would be introducing new provisions for work in the life trajectory of different categories of workers in the city of Pelotas, RS. Theoretically, this research is based on the dispositionalist perspective of the contemporary French sociologist Bernard Lahire. As a methodology, we used biographical interviews or life narratives, which allowed us to pay greater attention to the speech and life stories of the interviewees in their labor socialization processes. We identified provisions that were being incorporated and how they were strengthened in some cases, which we now enumerate: labor provisions, provisions for precarious and arduous work, provisions for registered jobs, provisions for entrepreneurship, provisions for more than one job and provisions for belief and disbelief in unions. We understand that although they are social actors with their singularities and particularities, workers share structuring aspects of Brazilian labor society that make their trajectories similar. In this sense, we went beyond what Lahire observed in modern societies in the European context, in which the author detects that there is a plurality of social universes that make actors singular and plural. We realize that in societies like Brazil, where the precarious homogeneity of the world of work is imposed, it makes workers dispositionally similar.