The Situation of Brazilian Youth in a Context of Extreme Flexibilization, Uberization and Unemployment

Abstract

In the last five years Brazil lived with reconfigurations in the universe of work. Laws and reforms that had enabled the flexibilization and informality of the worker were overturned, thus weakening rights won through much struggle and political articulation. Public transport and merchandise delivery apps are a novelty that have gained strength and are currently one of the main mechanisms for poor youth entering the labor market. Based on quantitative data, this text aims to reflect on the way in which this work model, characterized by flexibility and informality, reaches Brazilian youth and, at the same time, how these characteristics contribute to the overexploitation of work, engender-ing the generalization of neoliberalism in society. We understand that this process of work transformation has been a catalyst for psychological suffering and illness in young workers, especially the most vulnerable.