Internacionalização do capital e Estado no Brasil: as políticas com relação à força de trabalho

Abstract

The central objective of this work is to analyze the ways in which state policies regarding the workforce in Brazil were implemented and how they evolved, seeking to detect how changes in these policies are associated with the advancement of the process of capital internationalization. The perspective adopted considers that this process implies important transformations in the format of national States and in the composition of forces that express themselves within their scope and there strive to establish courses of action. The process of capital internationalization is the methodological starting point for the analysis of the State and its policies regarding the workforce, considering that this constitutes a fundamental tendency of capitalism, constituting one of the dominant traits of the system today. The concept adopted that the phenomenon manifests itself historically with different contours and, in specific social formations, causes significant changes in the characteristics of national States as they also become internationalized. Internationalization represents material base that configures some trends that include scales of variation. The period covered by the research starts from the 1950s and continues to the present day, emphasizing those sub-periods in which the internationalization process occurs more strongly and the state apparatus and the State's performance undergo more significant transformations. Indicators of the progress of the internationalization of the Brazilian economy are used; the State's action on components of exploitation and reproduction of the workforce; changes in the legislation concerning the conditions of exploitation of the workforce and the organization of workers and considered indicative elements of the performance of the different fractions of capital and the workers' movement at the state level.