Trabalho decente para catadores de material reciclável no Brasil : uma análise sobre o meio ambiente do trabalho do catador

Abstract

Faced with the productive restructuring of capital, there is a globalized moment of strong precariousness of labor relations, making formal employment an increasingly rare legal relationship, at the same time as unemployment emerges as a new stigma of social exclusion. Parallel to this socioeconomic context, waste production is on an ascending scale, making waste disposal a subsistence alternative for a growing group of workers. Given the nature of the taster's work and the work environment to which it is subjected, some pertinent questions arise: is there a way to make the activities carried out by the recyclable waste picker decent and decent work? How does the working environment of this professional category adjective work as demeaning? What normative instruments can be used to defend recyclable waste pickers, who carry out essentially informal work? These are the main questions to be addressed in this research, which had as methodology the bibliographic research and documentary analysis, reserving for the last chapter an interview with scavengers associated with a cooperative operating in the interior of the State.