Precariousness, neoliberalism and social question: reverberations about the ways of working in northeastern Brazil

Abstract

This paper is the outline of a broad proposal that focused on an analysis of Neoliberalism, work and precariousness in Latin America. The covered segment portrays aspects of work configuration in Brazil‘s Northeast region, highlighting the implications of neoliberalism and precariousness processes in this context. Given the complexity of articulating such categories, three decisive points were chosen to guide our intent: precariousness as a constitutive phenomenon of the neo-liberal model proposed for work; an analysis of the social question as a mechanism for contextualizing the differences that affect the labor market; and, finally, the most recent political dimension, responsible for significant transformations that reverberate in the work configuration of the Northeast region. The construction of this scenario lays the foundations that allow to understand the articulation between the “new” ways of working and the subjective production of workers, acknowledging evidence of this connection for the constitution of the Social Psychology of Work field.