Disposições socializadoras e ideal de profissão independente: um estudo de trajetórias individuais de “pejotas” na cidade de Pelotas - RS

Abstract

This study aims, through the application of a methodological device created by Bernard Lahire, to analyze the trajectory of the workers who, instead of being hired as a regular employee, opted to create a legal entity to celebrate a contract with their employer in a process called “pejotização”, a word derived from PJ (Pessoa = Person/Entity + Jurídica = Legal, something like “legal entityzation”). The analysis will verify if the dispositions incorporated by these workers in the different socializing environments have any kind of influence over their choice to become this kind of independent professionals. With the restructuring of the capital and production systems, employment relations throughout the world began to undergo continuous changes, leading to more flexible forms of work. These changes are responsible for technical and organizational changes, which lead to more precarious working conditions and changes in the forms of contracts, accentuating subcontracting, outsourcing, increasing informality and the emergence of new working modalities. In Brazil, new government policies provide for the expansion of outsourcing, which leads to an increase in business practices that seek to enter into contracts through the provision of corporate service. Thus, the so-called "pejotização" has been gaining grounds, which leads us to question whether the worker's adherence to this modality occurs in an autonomous or coercive way. Lahire helps us to understand what encourages a PJ to adhere to this modality of contract: this action is guided by a patrimony of dispositions, constituted by the socialization processes of the past, incorporated by these workers. In order to carry out this study, it is necessary to study the individual social trajectory of each worker PJ.