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| Author(s): |
Thiago Pereira de Barros
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Presidente Prudente. 2021-03-22. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente |
| Defense date: | 2021-01-22 |
| Advisor: | Marcelo Dornelis Carvalhal |
| Abstract | |
This doctoral thesis had as an objective to understand the docker’s work in the country in face of the recente performance of capital in ports, seeking to understand the working conditions and the reflexes of capital control strategies in this sector, mainly based on the port modernization process and its meanings for dockworkers, whether casual or formal. At the same time, we examine the state actions and policies in this process. We had, as a spatial cut of research two distinct port models, the Organized Port of Santos, such as landlord port, and the Private Terminal of Pecém, terminal where both the port authority and the operation are under the control of the private sector. The port modernization in Brazil had as a mark the law no8.630/93, inserting modifications in the sector, among them, created the Port Authority, the Port Authority Council and Port Operators who established, in each Organized Port (PO), a Work Management Agency (OGMO) ending the closed shop. In other words, with the control of the labor intermediation of the port casual workers ́unions. As well as, the process of privatization of port terminals started within the PO and of authorizations for the installation of the new exploration model in the ports, the Private Use Terminal. The Terminal of Pecém emerged in this new port model context, that is, a private terminal from administration to operation. With significant differences in terms of tax, tax obligations, hiring of the workforce, etc., in relation to the PO. The thesis defended, in this sense, is that the expansion of capital in ports, via modernization, is related to the existence of neoliberalism in the context of the current capitalism, and consequently to the expansion of capital itself. It means, port modernization appears as the privatization and expansion of capital reproduction in the sector. Since, the thesis study revealed that the capital expansion territories in face of modernization/privatization, are already consolidated/existing areas, such as the PO of Santos; places built with public funding within the new port exploitation model, such as the TUP of Pecém; or other locations in process or future construction. But the effects of port modernization also consist of the continuity and intensification of work, or rather, the precariousness and flexibilization of docker’s work. As well as, in an attempt to fragment and weaken individual and collective resistance of dockworkers, either by imposing the logic of the employee, destabilizing relation within the unions or by dismantling the social and labor rights historically conquered. Thus, we understand that the precepts of port modernization, their concrete and immaterial meanings for workers present itselves as the precariousness of labor relations in ports in face of the sociometabolic dynamics of capital. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/05924-7 - From modern to precarious word of port work: the implications of capital advancment in the brasilian port sector |
| Grantee: | Thiago Pereira de Barros |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |