Trabalhadores velhos: uma expressão da questão social no século XXI

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Benedito, Jonorete de Carvalho
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Alagoas; Brasil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social; UFAL
• Palavras-chave em Português: Trabalhador; Envelhecimento; Idosos; Questão social; Políticas públicas; Worker; aging; old; social question; policy public; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/2274

Understanding the social question as a result of capital-labor relationship, this dissertation, guided by the Marxist tradition, examines the conditions for the existence of old workers, whose precariousness puts their problematic between one of the most prominent expressions of the social question in the XXI century. The century in question confirm the statistics disseminated and studied since the middle of last century, about the increase in life expectancy, disclosed in the perspective of a healthy aging. However, lacks it be explained that necessary means to have quality of life during years of the old age are determined by material conditions to which ones few have access. Workers and capitalists do not have the same conditions to enjoy the much desired quality of life. To understand what is exposed in this Master’s Degree Thesis was necessary to refer us to the dynamics of capitalist society in its relationship with workers, more specifically those who survive until old age. It was showed the antagonistic relationship between workers and bourgeois and how this relationship is determinant in the process of aging. Although the research focus the elderly, says that the results can be generalized, since the conditions experienced by the elderly today are derived from the capitalist gradual development that will continue producing victims, until it will be extinguished this mode of production and with it the social question that itself is inherently .