Labor Relations and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Reflections on Labor Policies in Brazil
In this article, we investigate what labor scenario Brazil faces with the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to assess to what extent collective health strategies, such as social isolation, may be viable for people living from work and what level of support can provide our public social protection screen....
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Social |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/16941 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.juridicas.unam.mx/index.php/derecho-social/article/view/16941 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | work precariousness neoliberalism pandemic public health travail précarité néolibéralisme pandémie santé publique trabajo precariedad neoliberalismo pandemia salud pública |
| Sumario: | In this article, we investigate what labor scenario Brazil faces with the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to assess to what extent collective health strategies, such as social isolation, may be viable for people living from work and what level of support can provide our public social protection screen. To do this, the rationality that has organized labor relations in the country will be debated, as well as its domination by the State, through theoretical references that problematize the advent of neoliberalism and the tensions generated by it in labor legislation. Social isolation is discussed as a strategy for collective health, evaluating who are the subjects capable of adhering to this strategy, who are sacrificed to make it work (and in what terms is this sacrifice made) and, even so, who are the subjects who fall in this scenario through a language of care, and not of rights. These reflections allow us to achieve important orientations of social policy to face the pandemic, problematizing the weaknesses of our model of social regulation of work, beyond the context of crisis. |
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