Neoliberalism in Brazil and the attacks on labour rights from 1990 to 2021

Abstract

Facing a current shattering scenery of labour rights historically conquered in Brazil, neoliberal offensives in the world of work have become increasingly incisive, which influenced changes in already consolidated laws and marked a period of setbacks to class worker. With concerning formation of labour rights, since the formation of the neoliberal model in the 1990s, governments have consumed Brazil's rights, it has gone through several changes and processes considered perverse for workers. In this way, this article aims analyze the changes and implications around world of work in Brazil (1990-2021). In methodology, we resort a bibliographic and documentary research, focusing authors such as Pochmann (2020), Antunes (2004), Di Benedito (2017) and others. In summary, in Brazil, for more than three decades, the application of neoliberal prescription centre on social policies of privatization, outsourcing and reduction of state investments. In view of, these actions have subjected class worker to situations of intensified working time, disabling professional stability, substantially modifying work relationships calling into question the very conditions of survival of the worker, through reforms that are consistent with the withdrawal - and not for expansion – of labour rights.