THE WILL TO WORK FOR ONESELF AND THE MEANING OF WAGE LABOUR IN RECIFE, BRAZIL

Authors

  • Márcio Moneta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61999/abet.1676-4439.2022v21n1.55443

Abstract

Prevailingly, positive remarks regarding modalities of work apart from the conventional wage employment have been being purely seen as the triumph of entrepreneurial strategies of co-optation. Let me disagree: in utterances of those, there are some valuable elements to enable a proper investigation of a labour litigiousness. This paper displays some of the results of a study that deals with the stance of the Brazilian working class on wage labour, the fundamental social relation of capitalism. The initial focus was cast on a trivial question about the will to work for oneself, made in the course of a probabilistic, two-stage cluster sampling survey carried out among formal employees in Recife, Pernambuco. In this class experience, the contradictions between negation and consent, between autonomy and heteronomy are assessed in order to clarify the legitimacy of the contemporary capitalist order and the emancipatory aspirations that might take place from within it.

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Published

2022-08-17

How to Cite

Moneta, M. (2022). THE WILL TO WORK FOR ONESELF AND THE MEANING OF WAGE LABOUR IN RECIFE, BRAZIL. Revista Da ABET, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.61999/abet.1676-4439.2022v21n1.55443