The labor counter-reform: Outsourcing and precarization as a rule

Abstract

The objective of this article is to discuss some of the main elements of the so-called “labor reform” in Brazil, situating it in the current conjuncture of the Brazilian reality in the context of globalized and flexible capitalism under neoliberal hegemony. It seeks to answer the following questions: i) why was it possible to approve this counter-reform at this time, after more than 30 years of attempts by the business community to end CLT? ii) What is the essence of this counter-reform? iii) What is the relationship between outsourcing and the changes in the new legislation? iv) What are the main changes and which spaces and areas do they affect? v) What are the resistances and perspectives manifested by the most different social subjects to the new legislation?.