As manifestações da reestruturação produtiva na cidade de Guarulhos e seu rebatimento nas condições de trabalho e vida dos operários metalúrgicos

Abstract

This study is about the consequences of the restructuring of the production occurred in the last decades on the work conditions and on the lives of the workers of Guarulhos metal manufacturing industry. I track their life path and also their work path The main thesis is that the occurrence of the restructuring of the production in cities like Guarulhos, that had its development linked to the metal manufacturing industry but in a peripheral way (due to the type of products delivered), has a negative result on the workers work and life conditions. The city general conditions are not affected in the same way, as economic rearrangements can be made. I have investigated the new configurations of the work in Guarulhos how the vacancies are offered, the metal manufacturing industry situation, if there was growth of the service industry and also how much of the dismissed industrial workers the service industry have employed. I have also checked the industrial jobs situation in the city and how the industrial workforce faced the changes that occurred due to the moving of some companies to other states or due to the restructuring of the industrial production implemented in the companies that stayed in Guarulhos. I have tried to capture their experience of the deterioration of work conditions. Through interviews with labour experts I have tried to discover how they perceive the restructuring of the work and how Guarulhos changed to face the new demands of a globalized economy