Superexploração da força de trabalho feminina no capitalismo dependente brasileiro: uma discussão à luz da Teoria Marxista da Dependência e da Teoria da Reprodução Social

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the intensification of the super-exploitation of female labor power within the framework of Brazilian dependent capitalism, drawing on a theoretical dialogue between Marxist Dependency Theory (MDT) and Social Reproduction Theory (SRT). The dependent condition of Latin American economies is understood as a historical and structural unfolding of the dynamics of global capitalism, whose reproduction is sustained through systematic mechanisms of super-exploitation of labor power. Through an articulation between MDT, which elucidates the structural violation of the value of labor power in dependent formations, and SRT, which situates women’s oppression within the broader process of capital’s social reproduction, this study argues that the super-exploitation of female labor assumes specific and gendered determinations. Manifested in the precarization of working conditions, persistent wage inequality, and the intensification of women’s total working time, such super-exploitation articulates exploitation in the sphere of paid labor with the disproportionate burden of unpaid domestic and care work, thereby revealing the gendered foundations of accumulation in dependent capitalism