Banca de DEFESA: LETÍCIA GABRIELLE COSTA PASSOS

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STUDENT : LETÍCIA GABRIELLE COSTA PASSOS
DATE: 25/09/2023
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/krg-faqu-jae
TITLE:

CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND RELATIVE SURPLUS POPULATION: the case of the homeless population

KEY WORDS:

Homeless population. Capital accumulation. Relative superpopulation. Reserve industrial army.

PAGES: 144
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Serviço Social
SUMMARY:

 

The research presented here develops a discussion about the homeless population in capitalism. The objective is to analyze the aforementioned population phenomenon and its relationship with the process of capital accumulation, based on the work Capital by Karl Marx. Specifically, this dissertation seeks to: I) problematize the process of capitalist accumulation associated with the process of economic exploitation; II) investigate the origin and functionality of the relative overpopulation or industrial reserve army; and III) analyze the homeless population in the Brazilian territory, highlighting particularities of the phenomenon in Natal/RN. Faced with the need to apprehend the essence of the object of study and achieve the stated purposes, this research was guided by the dialectical-critical method and is constituted as a theoretical research of a qualitative nature, subsidized by techniques of bibliographic survey and documentary research. It should be noted that the proposed incursion was based on the development and theoretical foundation of the work Capital, especially chapters 23 and 24 of book I – The general law of capitalist accumulation and The so-called primitive accumulation, respectively. However, the importance of other chapters present in Book I and Book III of that work is not minimized. The research results point to an intrinsic relationship between the capitalist mode of production and the homeless population, because it is a phenomenon that comes from the working mass that is relatively superfluous to the needs of capital. Relative overpopulation is considered functional to the process of capitalist accumulation and, for this reason, it is possible to observe its uninterrupted production since the stage of primitive accumulation of capital, when capitalism was structured at the expense of direct producers – expropriated of their lands and means of production. subsistence and forcibly thrown into the salaried system for the sale of their own labor power. The incompatibility between the number of manpower able to be sold and jobs available to absorb workers was analyzed as the spur to the generalization of pauperism and accelerated reproduction of the homeless population. The population phenomenon analyzed in this research, part of the relative overpopulation, is found mostly in the sphere of the lumpenproletariat and in the stagnant layer. In view of this, the sale of the workforce of the homeless population is faced with misfortunes and is seen, most of the time, restricted to the possibilities of precarious work and the practice of begging, since the insertion of people who use the street as a place to live and support in the formal job market is negligible.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2475019 - HENRIQUE ANDRE RAMOS WELLEN
Interna - 1451156 - CARLA MONTEFUSCO DE OLIVEIRA
Interna - 1694568 - DANIELA NEVES DE SOUSA
Externa à Instituição - MARIA LUCIA LOPES DA SILVA - UnB