Produção e reprodução capitalista na indústria da reciclagem: uma análise do trabalho de catação de materiais recicláveis no interior paulista

• Autor(a) principal: Grecco, Fabiana Sanches [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110430
• topic: Trabalho feminino; Trabalho informal; Indústria de reciclagem - São Paulo (Estado); Coleta seletiva de lixo; Recycling industry

Bases on field trips to collect oral reports from pickers of recyclable materials in the cities of Araçatuba/SP and Marília/SP, the process of industrial recycling in São Paulo State countryside is analyzed, articulating it to the discussions about organization of production processes in Brazil, highlighting the gender based work division. The aim is, by analyzing how recycling is structured in contemporary capitalism, to emphasize the hidden exploitation of the workforce, especially women pickers of recyclable materials, drawing a link between the expansion of this labor activity and the political-economic and social transformations of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. As a hypothesis to this study, the growth of informality in production relationships is highlighted, triggering production growth of an overpopulation relative to the average need for workers employed for capital appreciation, the rescue of work associations and the use of the labor force of women as enhancing factors of capitalist exploitation, which articulately justify the process of expansion of pickers work in the country.