Precarização das relações de trabalho no ensino superior: as condições de trabalho dos docentes temporários da Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros

Abstract

This research, entitled PRECARIZATION OF WORK RELATIONSHIPS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE WORKING CONDITIONS OF TEMPORARY TEACHERS AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTES CLAROS, was fulfilled from a Marxist perspective and aims to show the changes and working conditions imposed on teachers from the State University of Montes Claros in the period between 2005 and 2019. One hypothesis is that transformations in the world of work and its consequent political and legislative actions - through evaluations of legal provisions such as Complementary Law Nº 100/2007 - may have caused or worsened the precarious working conditions of temporary teachers in Minas Gerais, from 2005 to 2019. The methodology was organized in three stages: bibliographic review, the document analysis and field research. In the third stage, the method used was a semi structured interview with a group of college professors that work in the state university. The results of the research made it possible to associate the problem of contractual flexibility and precariousness of teaching work with the crises of capitalism that began in the 1970s and the expansion of neoliberalism. Such expansion promoted the shrinkage of the State on the one hand, in relation to social programs, and, on the other side, strengthened it to promote the deregulation of the market in such a way as to favor a new educational order: the transformation of education into merchandise. In this way, state universities, supported by regulatory legislation and the arguments of budget cuts, have for many decades used the constant practice of temporary hiring of teachers through the designation processes. It was observed that the legislation and internal resolutions affected the disruption of the teaching staff, with disputes and conflicts that emptied the teachers' struggles against the context of contractual flexibility and overexploitation, results of the advancement of the neoliberalist political arising from the government and management of the University.