THE TOTAL OUTSOURCING SOCIETY

Abstract

This paper has as objective to present a critical analysis regarding the deepest meanings of Bill 4330 (modified later into PLC 30/2015) which, by advocating the elimination of existing disjunction between support activities and core activities, will enable the outsourcing process expansion for all productive activities (in a broad sense). By doing this, in addition to breaking with core elements of the CLT, in theory, all the working modalities may be outsourced, which will further expand the insecurity, informalization and flexibility processes of the labor force in Brazil. Allowing that the majority of the wage-earner working class, nowadays governed by the CLT, can be converted into outsourced wage-earners, paves the way for the total outsourcing society, which will further perpetuate the work devoid of human-societal meaning. Such a movement, driven by the logic present in the financial capital, will increase exponentially, in the productive value chains, contemporary forms of slavery, semi-slavery, precarious, informal, outsourced and flexible work, among many other forms already existing in productive branches where outsourcing is massive. It corroborates our hypothesis that these working modalities tend to no longer be the exception to progressively become the prevailing rule in the capitalism of our time, turning into core mechanisms of employer's strategy. Finally, its expansion will significantly benefit the production of surplus value in several productive branches and specially in the service sector.