OUTSOURCING/SUBCONTRACTING: CONCEPTUAL DEBATE AND POLITICAL CONTEXT

Authors

  • Vitor Araújo Filgueiras
  • Sávio Machado Cavalcante

Abstract

Despite outsourcing has been subject of great controversy, there is consensus over the concept that defines it. The purpose of this paper is to discuss this consensus and point out their contradictions, indicating that precariousness of work related to outsourcing is not a contingency, but corollary of the nature of this way of hiring workers, which reduces the chances of limiting labour exploitation. Thus, attempts to discriminate types of outsourcing, such as "true" or "false", "good" or "bad", ignore the logic of the phenomenon. The greater risks of accidents and deaths, and the much higher incidence of outsourced workers among those subjected to conditions analogous to slavery show it. The current picture is cloudy, and there are real chances of a complete liberalization of outsourcing, as indicated by the approval of proposal Act 4330 in the House of Representatives in April this year (2015).

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Filgueiras, V. A., & Cavalcante, S. M. (2015). OUTSOURCING/SUBCONTRACTING: CONCEPTUAL DEBATE AND POLITICAL CONTEXT. Revista Da ABET. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/abet/article/view/25699

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Dossiê: Sobre Terceirização