Capital accumulation, crisis, and labor market in modern Brazil

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-02592019v22n1p15

Abstract

This article presents the recent changes in the Brazilian labor market, resulting from the recessionary dynamics of the world capitalist economy of the last decades manifested since the 2007-2008 crisis. It observes the insertion of Brazil in the global capitalist economy and the foundations supporting the processes of reproduction of capital, analyzing some indicators of the labor market related to the labor-power employment, wage, rates of formalization and turnover, in light of central tendencies and determinations of today’s process of expanded reproduction of capital. The study contributes to clarify phenomena such as the tendency to identify formal and informal work, the reconstitution of the industrial reserve army, wage repression and intensification of labor, which are promoted by the ongoing “reforms” in Brazil.

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Gustavo Mello, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo

Doctor of Sociology from Faculty of Philosophy, Languages, and Human Sciences of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and the Graduate Program in Social Policies of the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES).

Maurício de Souza Sabadini, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo

Doctor of Economics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Professor at the Department of Economics and the Graduate Program in Social Policies of the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES).

Henrique Braga, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo

Doctor of Economic Sciences from Institute of Economics of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES).

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2019-04-25

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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2019): Social protection in contemporary capitalism: counter-reforms and regression of social rights

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Thematic space

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