O trabalho reconfigurado e a nova condição do trabalho informal e precário: a saga dos trabalhadores de mototáxi em Campina Grande.

Abstract

This research aims at analysing, under a sociological perspective, how informality has been addressed in the ambit of work relations, particularly for motorcycle taxi services in Campina Grande, a small northeast city located in a peripherical region.This study apprehends sociability ways which are on the basis of this new work segment, taking into account new work relations standards which compose it. The hypothesis that guides this study is that the motorcycle taxi service is part of a response given by workers and society. That is to say, by means of spontaneous social processes, work crisis, mainly due to jobs seen as classical terms what has reached the whole world, and consequently this country as a reincrement of selfemployment and informal work. As to Brazil, informality issue is not new, since it is constitutive of the work relations st andard with the country industrialization. However, it has been gaining new conformations from changes related to the work world in global terms. New sectors emerge marked by informality, as alternative means of transportation in medium and large cities. New situations contribute to the reproduction of informal work relations, as a sub rehiring resource and an apology discourse of self-employment. New public policies are generated for dealing with such an issue, with emphasis on actions at the municipal, such as: several attempts for the regulamentation of the alternative means of transportation; street vendor activities; popular malls, keepers‟ activities etc. As for that, social sciences feel moved for discussing: What is the news concerning this fact? What new kind of work and informal workers have emerged? What changes about the dynamics of the informal work relations on the relationship between formal and informal dimensions of the current pattern of labor relations? What are the impacts of this process on the solidarity and identity of these workers as a class? What place does the job in this new configuration? What is the role of the state in this process? The intention is not to offer definitive answers to the questions raised, but only bring elements of reflection on the phenomenon of the new condition of informal work from an approach of working relations within the motorcycle taxi service in Campina Grande, Paraiba. From the methodological point of view, we endorse each other's objective and subjective dimensions, structures / processes, practices / social representations of constituted social dynamics and in an ongoing constitution in the motorcycle taxi service. This research is conducted under a qualitative viewpoint. It uses, among others, the combination of the following instruments: direct observation procedure, document analysis (involving CG Motorcycle Company documents, STTP and the law governing the service at the municipal level) and interviews with the direction of trade unions with the motorcyclists and the business sector.