A Informalidade no Brasil do século XXI

as contribuições do estruturalismo cepalino e de Francisco de Oliveira

Abstract

Informality, historically present in underdeveloped countries like Brazil, is characterized by the widespread presence of workers without access to labor rights guaranteed by law and productive units with low productivity and organization. Throughout the decades of the 20th century, this reality was consolidated in different ways, deepening the precariousness of the labor force. Taking the ECLAC's structuralist view - which initially understood informal work to be formed from the heterogeneity of the national productive structure - we attempt to analyze the historical formation of the Brazilian labor market. For the 1990s and 2000s, we emphasize that the structuralist view is important to analyze the informality phenomenon, but it must be complemented by the Marxist view of Francisco de Oliveira. This author emphasizes that informality is a phenomenon intrinsic to the capitalist system of production and, therefore, it is still persistent in the 21st century.