Do trabalho precário ao trabalho decente? A qualidade do emprego como perspectiva analítica

Abstract

This article proposes a theoretical-methodological discussion regarding quality of employment based on the debate surrounding decent work. It is argued that quality of employment offers a broader analytical model to incorporate the development of job markets in the present with views that the concept of decent work would be a category of quality of employment, among others. In analytical terms, quality of employment suggests the possibility of hierarchization, according to intrinsic and relational properties of jobs, that is, a job of “higher quality” is a job qualitatively better than a job of “lesser quality”. The concept of decent work has shown itself to be limited. In the discussion regarding the concept of “decent work” and quality of employment, it has been concluded that the first concept seeks to recover a job standard historically defined as one of quality – a typical job – while the second suggests an effort to improve the concept of a quality job