https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/5163 2026-07-01T14:28:44Z 2026-07-01T14:28:44Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48758 2026-06-22T13:15:31Z 2026-02-27T00:00:00Z

Title: Um sorriso forçado: análise sobre a precarização do trabalho hoteleiro e suas implicações para os trabalhadores Abstract: This sociological study aimed to understand how neoliberal logic and flexible accumulation redefine the processes of labor flexibilization and precarization in the hotel sector, part of the service industry. Wage-related, social, and professional issues were examined, as well as forms of hostility originating from both employers and guests. The analysis focused on segments of the working class, particularly wage earners in the service sector, who are often treated in an inferior manner by customers positioned on the opposite side of the counter. It was observed that this sector has increasingly relied on technologies aimed at employee surveillance, along with new managerial strategies disseminated throughout the twenty-first century. Flexibilization frequently proved to be a euphemism for labor precarization, while the accumulation of tasks was encouraged as proactivity and multifunctionality within the framework of flexible accumulation, understood as a form of expropriation that has come to dominate the contemporary service sector. Such mechanisms, rather than functioning as tools to support hotel work, have been converted into factors that intensify labor exploitation. These transformations have been accompanied by operational problems in hotel management systems, constant surveillance through continuously operating cameras, and the requirement of permanent readiness imposed by social media, which demand immediate responses to guests' requests. Furthermore, the social problems present in this sector have often manifested with the complacency of employers and in the absence of firm action by the sector's legal representation. Issues related to working time, access to personal information, individualization, moral and sexual harassment, low wages, and multifunctionality were identified as constitutive dimensions of labor precarization in the twenty-first century. Classical sociological authors, as well as contemporary researchers in the Sociology of Work and in hospitality studies, contributed to the understanding of a form of employment marked by the physical and psychological exhaustion of workers. The bibliographical study of authors associated with historical materialism served as a theoretical tool supporting the analysis of the service sector. The research analyzed the neoliberal State and its economic models, which exert pressure on workers through low wages and high turnover rates. A bibliographical review grounded in classical sociological authors was conducted, highlighting that such authors had already pointed to the precarization of labor under liberal and conservative policies, responsible for sustaining a structure that devalues the working class within the service sector. The relevance of the relationship between the Brazilian State and the processes of labor precarization was also emphasized. From this point onward, the study developed a discussion of precarious work in the hotel industry, incorporating contemporary debates such as the proposal to abolish the 6×1 work schedule (six days of work for one day of rest), discussed in the years 2024, 2025, and 2026. The study analyzed the perception of front-desk workers regarding their exhaustion and their level of job satisfaction, as well as the practice of the "forced smile" as a mechanism for the simulation of emotions, an approach situated within the subfield known as the Sociology of Emotions. Documentary analysis of the 2017 Labor Reform and of the "Green and Yellow" Provisional Measure (MP) provided empirical support for the dissertation. It was concluded that the precarization of hotel labor results from the articulation between neoliberal policies, the fragility of union representation, and the dismantling of labor rights, with direct effects on workers' physical and mental health.

2026-02-27T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48652 2026-04-25T06:22:31Z 2025-12-19T00:00:00Z

Title: O lugar da Sociologia na reforma do Ensino Médio: uma análise bibliográfica e documental sobre a implementação da Lei nº 13.415/2017 no contexto da educação brasileira Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the role of Sociology in Brazil’s High School Reform, established by Law No. 13.415/2017, aiming to understand its impacts on students’ critical education and on the social role of public schools. Grounded in historical-dialectical materialism, the research is qualitative, bibliographical, and documentary in nature, combining theoretical reflection with the analysis of legislation, guidelines, and official documents from the Ministry of Education. Drawing on the works of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Décio Saes, Dermeval Saviani, and István Mészáros, the study discusses the relationship between the State, hegemony, and education, highlighting how neoliberal rationality has subordinated schooling to market demands. The research demonstrates that the reform, under the discourse of flexibility and choice, promotes curricular fragmentation, the devaluation of the Humanities, and the weakening of critical thought. In this context, Sociology is understood as a field of resistance and an emancipatory instrument, essential to the development of students’ historical and political awareness. It concludes that defending Sociology in High School is inseparable from defending public education, democracy, and the right to critical thinking. Education, understood as a social and political practice, thus remains a space of struggle and transformative hope.

2025-12-19T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48308 2026-02-20T06:25:47Z 2025-12-12T00:00:00Z

Title: Caim e Abel, Jacó e Esaú: Análise da disputa entre conservadores e progressistas no protestantismo brasileiro

2025-12-12T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/48257 2026-02-12T06:21:02Z 2026-02-04T00:00:00Z

Title: O dispositivo de racialidade e a necropolítica no Brasil: uma análise a partir de Sueli Carneiro Abstract: This work aims to analyze the concepts of Raciality Device and Necropolitics in contemporary Brazil based on Sueli Carneiro and Achille Mbembe. The research establishes that Carneiro's Raciality Device functions as the historical and operational structure of Brazilian necropolitics, tracing its roots to the slave regime of the 16th century and perpetuating the marginalization and dehumanization of the Black population. Using the conceptual lens of Achille Mbembe's necropolitics, which exposes the state power to dictate who may live and, mainly, who must die and how, the work seeks to understand how the dynamics of racism are articulated with these two concepts that draw upon Michel Foucault's notion of biopower. The central objective is to highlight contemporary manifestations of extermination and control, analyzing necropolitical practices in their multiple dimensions, with an emphasis on gender intersectionality. To this end, the study delves into the genocide of black male youth, interpreting police violence and mass incarceration as active strategies of death, in accordance with the concept of "violence as a mode of subjectivation", and into the gender dimension of necropolitics concerning black women, manifested by "letting die" (omission and neglect in the health system, resulting in high rates of "preventable and avoidable deaths") and by reproductive control. Instead of focusing on resistance strategies, this study concentrates on demonstrating the permanence and functioning forms of this machine of death and subalternization in the current Brazilian scenario.

2026-02-04T00:00:00Z