Reestruturação produtiva, subjetividade e sentidos do desemprego no contexto industrial de Lavras-MG: uma abordagem construcionista

Abstract

The changes in the world of the work lead to new conditions of empregability and stir up the discussion concerning the role of work in the contemporary society. In this context, the unemployment and the informal work stand out, stirring up the emergency of new social values. Therefore, the study of the unemployment phenomenon under the unemployeds view and its subjectivity is advocated. With this, the objective was to investigate the sense produced by unemployeds of the industrial sector in Lavras - MG, concerning the unemployment, as well as understanding the subjective manifestation of these senses. To reach this objective, the constructionist perspective and the analysis of the discursive practices as theoretician-methodological positions research were used. The changes in the world of the work were presented, focusing the debate concerning the role of the work in the contemporary society. Later, one brief discussion concerning the subjectivity concept was delineated, beyond the presentation of some categories of modern subjectivity in the Brazilian scene. By means of the analyses, two interpretative repertoires were identified, containing, each one, subgroups. The interpretative repertoire of work was subdivided in the repertoire of the process of productive reestructuration in Lavras and the repertoire of the worker condition. The interpretative repertoire of unemployment was subdivided in the repertoire of the conditions of maintenance of the empregability and in the repertoire of the condition of unemployed. For the identification of the repertoires, it was propitiated construction of the categories for the interpretation of the senses, subjectively manifest, around the unemployment. One verified the "ultimate senses" of the formation of a disqualified periphery, the violence and crime, the symbolic death and the opportunity. We believe that the comprehension of the aspects of unemployment can provide subsidies for more profound studies regarding this phenomena. It can also be useful in the business field, for example in the development of public policies for job generation.