Educação na empresa e a formação do trabalhador no modelo da organização produtiva capitalista: formação profissional no Grupo Votorantim

Abstract

This research falls within the study field of relations between education, work and professional formation. Also seeks to analyze the projects Partnership for education and The future in ours hands, that are developed by Votorantim Group under the organizational model of toyotist production and aimed at young people and adults. And even the formation of worker in the model of capitalist productive organization in the company Votorantim Metals, in Vazante MG, at the period in which such process has been consolidated. Our study begins of the following questions: why are there so many institutions proposing the professional requalification at a time when unemployment sweeps the world? What would be the (no) ways of human formation against the productive process? Who is interested in this knowledge, which the formation that is being proposed and for what work? And what is the conception of professional education (and society) that is contained in the Professional Formation Program of Votorantim Group, linked to programs Partnership for education and The future in ours hands? For both, it became necessary to understand the capitalism in Brazil in its partial transition from fordist paradigm to the flexible accumulation, in which the professional formation studied is included and that seeks adapt the education according to market imperatives. This to replace speeches and introduce new notions such as employability, competences, etc. Also sought to understand the changes in the work process in this company and its developments, objectives and subjectives, for the working class it belongs. Also aims to discuss about the conditions of modernization and development of programs that are based on toyotism and developments of such changes. And also its educational aspects, the adequacy of the working class to the changes cause by toyotism through training conducted in the company aimed at the deployment of new programs. The research still analyzes the education in the company aiming at the worker and his educational evolution in the model of capitalist productive organization.