The precarization of work in the digital age and its impact on labor-environmental balance

Abstract

This article aims to address the impact of Industry 4.0 on the fundamental right to a balanced work environment, which is essential to save the health and safety of workers, as well as analyze how the Brazilians Judiciary and Legislative Powers have faced this theme. To this end, it was adopted the bibliographic research and the use of the deductive method, seeking to demonstrate how transformations occurred in the labor field due to the Industrial Revolutions. Subsequently, approached the capitalism hyper late and how this was (and has been) felt by the working class. While it is not possible to attribute all the ills of the labor-environmental balance to Industry’s emergence, it is certain that the technological innovations resulting from the latter have intensified and accelerated the process of precarious to fundamental worker rights. The research showed that, although new and sophisticated forms related to the incidence of technology mark the work, they have not, for the most part, led to the improvement of working environment conditions, especially in relation to the journey, pointing that Brazilian jurisprudence and ordinary legislation need to consider this reality to be adequate to the constitutional guidelines.