A práxis político-pedagógica do movimento nacional de catadores de materiais recicláveis – MNCR

Abstract

This research establishes as an object of analysis the working situation and political formation of the collectors of recyclable materials. It aims to analyze aspects related to productive praxis and political-educational praxis in order to understand the process of organization and training of these workers as subjects of social transformation. The scavengers, even as informal workers, are in the orbit of capitalist production, producing surplus value from recyclables and constituting a super-exploited portion of the labor force. The phenomenon of garbage as a commodity, linked to the transformations of the world of labor and to the mutations of capitalism, places the work of collect as an abstract work in the dynamics of the productive chain of recycling. These workers represent in Brazil a workforce of more than one million people, organized in the National Movement of Collectors of Recyclable Materials (MNCR). This grassroots labor movement carries out its own political-pedagogical project of training its members, empowering them both for self-management work and for political militancy. The political-pedagogical program of the MNCR points to a critical formation, resistance and overcoming the capitalist mode of production. Taking as a starting point the postulate of the educational principle of work and praxis, especially the political-educational praxis, this research proposes a theoretical and documentary investigation of the process of organization and formation undertaken by the Movement that consists in the self-transformation of recyclable material collectors of category that composes one of the layers more exploited and disqualified professionally in important subjects of the social transformation.