Counter-reforms and social reproduction in the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

The article seeks to understand the conjuncture in which we found ourselves when the pandemic hits Brazilian territory, seeking to analyze it’s consequences for social reproduction, both for capital and for workers. The research that resulted
in the article is based on bibliographic and documentary studies, guided by the steps of historical-dialectical materialism. It seeks to initially highlight the changes in the world of work that have been implemented since the country’s redemocratization
process. Next, it seeks to expose elements that pointed to the increase in inequalities and the worsening of the living conditions of workers, in addition to highlighting some of the fractions of the working class especially affected. The structuring elements that impact on social reproduction result from the implemented counter-reforms, and not from the impacts of the pandemic itself; the actions taken to face the crisis aimed at maintaining capital, to the detriment of work.