Author: Alisson Droppa
The labor reforms in a comparative approach: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico
The following symposium has as reference the studies and interdisciplinary discussions occurring in the scope of the thematic Project: “Contradictions in Labor in today’s Brazil. Formalization, precarity, outsourcing and regulation”, coordinated by Professor Márcia de Paula Leite, where its researchers, in various thematic axes, intend to enlighten the impacts of the most current transformations of capitalism in labor relations, focusing itself in the theme of the labor law reforms undertaken in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and, most recently, the newly approved one in Brazil to be validated in November 2017, proposing to deepen the debate about the effects of these reforms already implemented and the one to be implemented (Brazilian case) for the labor relations. Those are countries that, despite their differences and specificities in the way that they react to these impacts, present themselves similarities in relation to the capitalist process of development and to the content of the structural reforms that are affecting the right of the workers as well as the public institutions that act in the world of labor. Even though Brazil has adopted some liberalizing devices in the 1990s and was maintaining the basic principles of social regulation of labor, incorporated by CLT in 1943 which rose to the condition of fundamental social rights by 1988 Constitution (BIAVASCHI; KREIN, 2015), the newly approved labor reform has altered significantly the labor regulation pattern that will be applied in November 2017. In this table, we intend to analyze the Brazilian labor reform from those already inputted reforms in the former countries, dialoguing with its similarities and its differences, therefore making possible from this dialogue, to bring elements that allow us to a deep understanding of them, aiming to reflect about alternatives to overcome this framework of widening inequality and insecurity in the world of labor experienced nowadays in Latin America.
Coordinator: Alisson Droppa, Post-doctoral researcher in Education for the Education College of Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
Panelists:
Andrea Del Bono, Argentina
Magda Barros Biavaschi, Brasil
Magdalena Echeverría, Chile
Luis Quintana Romero, México
Speaker: Márcia de Paula Leite, Brasil