A reforma trabalhista e a disputa pela regulação do direito do trabalho no Brasil

Abstract

This text presents a theoretical essay that has as general objective to foment the epistemological, juridical and sociological discussion about the Labor Reform in Brazil. The specific objectives of the study are focused on: addressing the epistemology of Labor Law, based on historical evolution, structural paradigms and their relationship with society and explain the basis of the flexibility of work brought about by the Labor Reform. In the methodological field, the exploratory research of qualitative approach was adopted, using bibliographical and documentary research for the theoretical basis. For the discussion and analysis of the data, the content analysis method was adopted (BARDIN, 2011). The theoretical framework was based on different authors, who discuss Labor, Labor Law and Labor Reform in Brazil, such as: Antunes (2004, 2018); Belluzzo (2012); Cassar (2018); Delgado (2004); Martins and Rodrigues, 1999); Marx (2004); Ianni (1996), among others. The results suggest that the labor reform contributes to a greater degradation of work in Brazil, since it subjects the worker to greater insecurity and increases the freedom of the employer to determine the conditions of hiring, the use of labor and the remuneration of the worker and, in effect, imposing a structural precariousness and the dismantling of social legislation that protects labor.