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Memorias postumas de uma categoria em transformaçâo: a formalizaçâo do
trabalho informal

Euler David de Siqueira1

Resumo

As sociedades que se estruturam tendo a venda e a compra do trabalho como dimensâo central da vida social
encontram-se em crise. O mercado de trabalho nao é, nem pode ser, o ünico espaço de alocaçao do trabalho social
sob pena de que a atividade produtora de valores de uso, reprodutora da identidade cultural e social, organizada
segundo prindpios outros que nao os da valorizaçao do capital, sucumba, implodindo a propria estrutura da
sociedade. O crescimento do trabalho informal nao é senao apenas um dos sinais mais exploitas do proprio
funcionamento da atividade produtora de valor de troca quando submete e modela o trabalho antes formal agora sob
uma nova forma. O trabalho informal, tornado visivel por teorias que o identificavam como um conjunto de relaçoes
arcaicas ou produzidas por atores sociais irracionais, fadadas a desaparecer, é ele mesmo provocado e tornado
modelo de referencia a toda a forma de trabalho. O trabalho formal perde espaço e centralidade diante das inümeras
reformas trabalhistas em todo o mundo, assumindo contornos informais mas que visam tornarem-se formais. Em
suma, o trabalho formal é substituido pelo trabalho informal que é o resultado dos proprios agentes econômicos
racionais que instauram estratégias de fuga do quadro regulatorio estatal.

Palavras-chave: trabalho formal, trabalho informal, processos de informalizaçao, crise do pode estatal, setor
terciario.

Posthumous memories of a changing category: the formalization of non-
formal work activities

Abstract

Societies which structure themselves having the purchase and selling of work as the central dimension of social life
find themselves in the middle of a crisis. The job market is not, and could never be, the only space of social work
allocation, otherwise the activity which produces utility values, a reproducer of the cultural and social identity,
organized under principles other than those of the valorization of capital, may collapse, imploding society's very own
structure. The growth of non-formal work activities is but one of the most explicit signs of the functioning of the trade-
value producing activity when it submits and models the formerly formal work activity now newly shaped. Informal
work, made visible by theories which would formerly identify it as a group of archaic relations or as having been
produced by irrational social agents, thus destined to vanish, is itself provoked and made into a reference model to all
forms of work. Formal work loses some of its space and centrality due to the uncountable labor-law reformations
around the world gaining informal contours, but seeking to become formal. In short, formal work is replaced by the
informal kind which is the result of the rational economic agents' coming up with strategies to escape the state's
regulatory proceedings.

Key words: formal work, non-formal work, non-formalizing processes, state power crisis, tertiary sector

1 Bacharel em ciências sociais (IFCH/UERJ), Mestre e Doutor em Sociologia (IFCS/UFRJ) professor adjunto da UFJF.

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