Por que não trabalhamos - e nem vamos - trabalhar menos: gestão do sofrimento neoliberal e novas formas de exploração do trabalho

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relationship between neoliberal rationality, labor management in contemporary capitalism, and the control of worker subjectivity in the new forms of labor exploitation. The central objective is to understand how neoliberalism shapes and utilizes suffering at work as a form of control and productivity, employing the neoliberal paradigm of self-governance. Furthermore, the study intends to analyze how neoliberalism impacts the boundary between personal life and work, as new labor management seeks the intellectual subsumption of workers and the domination of their psyche in the exploitation of surplus value. To this end, the crisis of Fordism and the rise of the flexible accumulation model of Toyotism will be explored, along with the new morphology of work, which increasingly encroaches upon the subjectivity of the worker. In addition, the study will examine the rise of neoliberalism and how it shapes a new subject, one that must be managed and administered as a small enterprise. It will also analyze how contemporary corporate management seeks to suppress the dimension of conflict by employing the ethics of performance and achievement in the workplace. Finally, it will address the precarization of labor in the digital age, focusing on the Project Bill No. 12/2024, which aims to regulate the work of app-based drivers, highlighting the current crisis of labor contract law and the dismantling of the minimum protections established in traditional labor law doctrine.