Transformations in work relations in banks: a trajectory of insecurity (1980 – 2010) - doi: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v34i2.18437

Abstract

This text analyzes the process of restructuring of banking work in Brazil, between the years of 1980 and 2010. This process speeds up with the advent of the Plano Real (1994), and is characterized by the elimination of large number of jobs, and to this end it is essential the participation of the so-called new technologies, understood as both the processes of change of management as the physical transformations that have occurred in the banks – bank automation -, both integrated into the production process as an instrument to consolidate the model of ‘flexible accumulation’. Whereas these new technologies are in disguise of greater integration of the worker in the productive process, marking its corporatist character, an intensification of the process of exploitation of labour, highlighting that this flexibility features a stage of spoliation of the workforce in capitalism. It is concluded that the banks’ strategy combines both the extreme exploitation of workers who provide services to third party companies and corresponding as the intensification of work of bank worker.