Relações de trabalho e previdência social no Brasil: dinâmicas e interseções (1900-2002)

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss labor relations and social security in Brazil, considering the peculiarities of the social, economic and political movement of the country during the twentieth century. The hypothesis is that the process of organizing social security as a product and producer of social conflicts is a reflection of different practices, interests and conceptions regarding the capital / labor relationship and the roles assumed by the Brazilian State in the course of capitalism. The relation theory / history runs through all research, adopting the critical-dialectical perspective to analyze the research object. Through bibliographic review and documentary research, data and information on labor regulation and the organization of social security were collected in Brazil, respecting the historical context in which the facts occurred and the legislative rules were produced. In the structuring of the research, three temporal landmarks were considered: from 1900 to 1960, from 1970 to 1980 and the last decade of the twentieth century, each corresponding to a chapter of the dissertation. The result is that, in the end, labor issues and social security issues are nothing more than political issues, and it is not possible to dissociate the historical process of labor regulation and social welfare organization in Brazil from the economic policy implemented and the correlation of forces existing in every historical moment.