Oldness, work and citizenship: politics of the third age and the resistance of the aged workers to the social exclusion.

Author(s)

Marcos Augusto de Castro Peres

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD)
• Defense date: 2007-08-30

Examining board members

Evaldo Amaro Vieira; Lucia Emilia Nuevo Barreto Bruno; Mauro Luis Iasi; Flavia Ines Schilling; Julio Assis Simoes

• Advisor: Evaldo Amaro Vieira

Abstract

This these analyzes the social movement of the elder in Brazil and the recent public politics and the resultant laws (the National Political of the Elder and the Statute of the Elder), under a critical perspective, considering the absence of the elders in those claims and the paper of the representative organizationals of the oldness while the main protagonists. This way, those actions can be understood like strategies for control a social group that grows quickly because of the populational ageing and by that even, it passes tot be interesting of the marketing and political-electoral viewpoint. Complicates-itself then the idea of institutional, representativity, as those are not contemplated, in these political and actions, fundamental demands of the elders, as the increase in the value of the retirement, for example. And that obliges many pensioners to keep working in order to supply their needs, situation that compromises still their autonomy. (AU)