PERMANÊNCIA PARA ALÉM DA PRECARIZAÇÃO DO TRABALHO: a centralidade das trabalhadoras terceirizadas para a funcionalidade do Instituto Federal da Paraíba/campus João Pessoa

Abstract

This article seeks to reveal how outsourced workers who work at the Federal Institute of Paraíba - Campus João Pessoa (IFPB-JP), located in Bairro Jaguaribe, remain for long periods in their jobs even with the turnover of service providers. Therefore, at first, the text brings some particularities in the world of work in Latin America and Brazil, and also how the sociology of work is faced with these historical challenges and then, starting from the assumption that outsourcing is a form of labor subcontract, therefore a structurally precarious condition, this article seeks to highlight and contextualize politically the main milestones of the construction of the current (2020) legal framework of this type of employment relationship. Following, a case study is presented at the IFPB-JP that demonstrates how the centrality of the activities developed by outsourced workers guarantee the functionality of the school institution as a whole, and how this is configured in one of the aspects that ensure continuity in their jobs for long-lived periods. Finally, this paper argues the need to classify these outsourced workers as education professionals and the imperative urgency in the elaboration of compensatory policies to remedy the existing gap in relation to statutory employees. These measures also serve as a disincentive to the growing outsourcing processes within the public service.