O direito ao tempo (de ser) livre na sociedade do trabalho : um debate sobre tempo de trabalho e tempo de não-trabalho

Abstract

Considering the context of overexploitation of working time since industrial society, in line with the logic of productive work, the research aimed to understand the reasons why the nonworking time has been vulnerable throughout history, especially today, and how this effectively manifests itself in the lives of the working class. To this end, the problem pursued here revolved around answering whether working time, in contemporary society, would be interfering with non-working time, in such a way as to impair the development of subjectivity and violate the worker's human dignity. Aiming to answer this problem, this dissertation adopted, in addition to bibliographic and documentary research, the hypothetical-deductive method, through which two hypotheses were raised as an answer to the problem. The first hypothesis is linked to the meaning given to work, while the second concerns the precariousness of working time as a consequence of the precariousness of work itself. As results, it could be observed that both hypotheses are confirmed as responsible for the constant violation of working time to nonworking time, illegally and immorally constraining the freedom and subjectivity of the human being who works, preventing him from enjoying and enjoying a truly free time devoid of productive meaning for capital. Finally, a possible path towards the overthrow of the degrading freedom of the working class lies in the reaffirmation of the right to free time as a human and fundamental right of every worker, capable of generating responses to the most perverse consequences of productive work, namely, the precarization of work, structural unemployment, and growing informality. It is about freedom from having, in favor of freedom to be truly free in the labor society.