ELITE NATIONAL, WORK RELATIONS AND COUNTRY PROJECT: REFLECTIONS SUPPORTS LABOR LEGISLATION IN BRAZIL
Elite. Labor rights. Country Project. Social Class.
This work aims to identify the existence of a country project that unifies the fractions of the Brazilian elite, under the direction of its industrial fraction that developed from the coffee cycle, from the analysis of labor relations and the construction of labor legislation in Brazil. For this, it intends to develop into four chapters. The first, more theoretical, will address the restructuring of the mode of capitalism production from the hegemony of neoliberalism. From this point, the second chapter is developed, now presented for the qualification exam, which will bring historical and also conjunctural aspects related to the emergence of legal norms that deal with labor relations in Brazil. The third chapter seeks the revision of the Brazilian bibliography about it, presenting possible demands for new theoretical formulations. Finally, the last chapter will focus specifically on the labor reform proposed by the Executive and approved by the National Congress in 2017, emphasizing the direct and indirect actors with their respective interests and the nature of their propositions. Our hypothesis is that when we understand the disputes about the construction or deconstruction of labor rights in Brazil, we will have explicit the country project intended by the dominant extracts of society. The inheritance of the Lula period, aspects of the 1988 Constitution and the inheritance of the Varguist period, receive historic opposition from a "modernizing" project that, on other bases, can turn the country back to pre-1930 conditions. The term "modernizer" indicates for our purposes the unity between neoliberalism and the historical aspirations of the Brazilian elite. Therefore, a country project could not be designed by the "top", but, built from a class project from the "bottom".