A reinvenção do trabalho no limiar da informalidade: um estudo sobre a condição social dos “flanelinhas” na cidade de Campina Grande-Paraíba.

Abstract

This study addresses informality problems and precarious work in the city of Campina Grande-Paraíba-Brazil. These issues are addressed as a result of historical conditions that reproduce the precarious nature of work relations in Brazil which, in the last decade, had a new meaning, as the impacts that the country suffered under the global labor transformations that culminated with the work flexibility or even unemployment. For those segments that, in peripheral regions such as the Northeast of Brazil, have always been excluded from the formal labor market or who have suffered the effects of processes of informality, remains as the last survival model to invent their own work. Therefore, in these labor relations there are those workers who survive on the borderline of formality, without access to social rights of workers in the formal market. In this paper, we observed a phenomenon that has emerged in Brazilian urban centers, leading to tensions, conflicts, domination and resistance in this new social and economic dynamics of the work: os ‘flanelinhas’.