Produtividade e jornada de trabalho na indústria de calçados de Franca - quem fica com os ganhos?

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the matter of the relations that permeate the evolution and performance of economical factors such as productivity, level of employment and work time, inside the context of capitalist production. It focuses the footwear manufacturers in Franca (state of São Paulo), Brazilian s most important production center of man footwear. This study advocates the necessity, significance and fairness of reducing working hours without diminishing wages, analyzing and trying to unmask the economic, social and political circumstances that cover the distribution or bigger retention of earnings derived from the continuous productive increase, due to certain social agents. In support of this, it makes use of numerous and clarifying quotations, having recourse to dialogues with valuable concepts of different authors about the theme, which, in general terms, focus the issue under a theoretical point of view, in both national and international aspects. The author s analysis, comments and conclusions cross mutually with expressions of conviction and the accumulation of knowledge about the topic, such as collection, systematization and interpretation of data and information, concerning the interrelationship Productivity x Employment x Work Time in Franca (state of São Paulo), in the field of footwear manufacturer processing industry. The analytical instrumental used in this paper detaches position and conflicting interests between distinct social classes as basic referential for a concrete analysis of the correlation of the economical factors mentioned. Position and conflicting interests are inherent and indivisible parts of an associate system characterized by the private property of production means, and consequently by the social relations originated in the sale of wage earner s workforce to capital holders.