A invisibilidade social na terceirização: um estudo da experiência do polo naval de Rio Grande.

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze how the outsourcing constitutes an invisibility factor of workers causing consequences in sociability processes for the working class, especially social increasing vulnerability. As reported and celebrated, the installation of the Polo Naval in Rio Grande inaugurated a substantial increasment in jobs and an unprecedented degree of outsourcing in the city, whose proportionality reported was two-thirds of outsourced jobs in the number of stable. Understanding the dynamics of the production process as the background of these relations was the first step to reach the object of this research are outsourced workers and their invisibility.It is a productive context organized under the flexible format that outsourced workers arrived at the same time that the stable workers and the main organizer of the project (Petrobras) sought to ensure a minimum standard of equality among workers (even dining hall, same bathroom, same recreational space, minimum wage level, health plan).These standards of equality, along with the euphoria of employment and paying above average wages in the region, among others, influenced the formation of the subjectivity of the outsourced workers and their intersubjectivity in order to make them ignore precarizantes aspects of outsourcing, as insecurity of contracts, lack of career, health damage, wages compatible with the function performed, exhausting journeys, ignoring all social protection that has stable workers.The hypothesis is that outsourcing triggers a process of invisibility and to give support to this statement sought to sustein her in the perspective of three social actors: contract workers, the trade union and the state. The recognition categories, redistribution, participatory parity, framing are the direction of the formulation of the invisibility concept. Jointly with this, we tried to contribute with other concepts such as precariousness, increasing vulnerability, social protection, which were also used for the understanding of contemporary labor relations and their impact. Observation, interviews were conducted with four contract workers, two trade union leaders, a labor auditor and a labor attorney and a questionnaire with two hundred and sixteen workers from Polo Naval and the analyzed documents from MTE, MPT, Trade Union constitute the variety of methodological resources for apprehension of reality.