A contrarreforma trabalhista de 2017: superexploração da força de trabalho e atuação política da burguesia interna

Abstract

This endeavor investigates the 2017 labor counter-reform, at the overexploitation of the workforce and the political actions employed by the internal bourgeois fraction. The general goal was to show that the internal bourgeoisie, taking advantage of the political crisis that started in 2013, stood out as the main capitalist fraction to act politically to approve the 2017 labor counter-reform, aiming to positivize and expand the overexploitation of the workforce. The thesis sought to demonstrate that this political maneuver resulted from the need to compensate for low productivity, due to the dependent technological structure, in addition to the determinations of the current export pattern of productive specialization, the limitations of neoliberal economic openness, the effects of the 2007 economic crisis and the real increase in the minimum wage during the PT (Workers9 Party) governments. Five specific objectives were elaborated: (1) to understand the development of Brazilian dependent capitalism; (2) to systematize the development of the dependent technological structure of Brazil9s capitalism; (3) to analyze the Brazilian economic formation in the current pattern of productive specialization; (4) to understand the formation and collective organization of the working class; (5) to understand the organization and contemporary contradictions of the capitalist class. The methodology adopted was historical materialism. Aiming to particularize this approach to the analysis of the reality being researched, the Marxist Theory of Dependency (TMD) was employed. For data collection, the first stage consisted of a bibliographical survey, including systematic literature review. The second stage was based on three sources: the first involved government sources, using statistical data and documents produced during the processing of the laws that make up our object of study; the second gathered documents and articles published by employers9 organizations; and finally, we analyzed documents from workers9 representative organizations. As conclusion, it is shown that the consolidation and expansion of the overexploitation of the workforce, promoted by the 2017 labor counter-reform.