Dinâmica formal-informal em lavanderias de jeans e suas implicações nas relações de trabalho

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Ana Márcia Batista Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Administração; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Informalidade multidimensional; Relações de trabalho; Dinâmicas de exploração do trabalho; Multidimensional informality; Work relationships; Dynamics of labor exploitation; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/12950

This thesis aims to study the labor relations in jeans´ laundries of the clothing pole from the “Agreste Pernambucano” at a time when the local informality is stressed by actions of "modernization" that are based on the growing integration of productive, commercial and local services to capitalist markets. Our thesis is that laundries are inserted in a particular way in the productive chain of making jeans by engendering work relations that connect informality - constitutive of the historical experience of the Pole with a structural character - to the processes of recent modernization and flexibilization at local and national / global levels. In order to show this double movement, we are understanding informality as a multidimensional notion. In this point, there is the theoretical-conceptual contribution of the thesis that integrates dialectically the juridical-institutional (work link, business register), socio-economic (salaried relationship, organization of the productive process, work management), socio-cultural (Social bonds between the subjects, naturalization, personalization and paternalism) and contextual (relation between local, global, regional and national factors). In this sense, we seek to distance ourselves from the modern-traditional, formal-informal dualisms, as well as the informal subordinate and functional understanding of the process of capital accumulation. Our theoretical-methodological approach, in dialogue with the formulations of Marx (1982, 2011, 2013) and Marx and Engels (2007) sought, within the limits of this research, to emphasize the dialectical relations between theory and empiricism, as well as the tensions and contradictions between social structures of a more objective nature and the subjective and active dimension of the subjects. For that, we chose a qualitative approach with the production of empirical material through direct observation, documentary sources and semi-structured interviews with laundry owners, workers and collective agents located in the municipalities of Caruaru and Toritama in Agreste Pernambucano that had The objective of: (1) To characterize the socio-productive reconfigurations of the jeans laundries; (2) To analyze the formal-informal dynamics with reference to the reconfiguration of laundries and (3) To analyze the implications of formalinformal dynamics in labor relations. The findings of the field in dialogue with the argument of thesis indicated that the informality is constitutive of the socio-productive experience of Agreste Pernambucano and has been conforming the labor relations in the jeans laundries searched in a tension between the traditional and the modern. In this, it has been combining control, discipline and intensification of work on the factory floor, the permanence of the bonds of proximity between employer and employee crossed by the ties of trust built in time. However, evidence of paternalistic traits in the capital-labor relationship has naturalized the dynamics of labor exploitation, which combined with the more intense contact of the owners with the more capitalized markets, together point to the strategies of flexible accumulation of capital in progress. Our formulation of informality as a multidimensional notion prevented us from slipping into dichotomous keys in the reading of informality in the region, nor did we assume the modern assumptions divulged by the strategic agents who have been working in the Pole and in the laundry segment.