Empreendedorismo e precarização, o avanço da “pejotização” e seus reflexos sobre os trabalhadores do campo da tecnologia da informação

Abstract

This study focuses on the advancement of legal entity contracts and their impact on workers in the field of information technology (IT). It aims to understand how this advancement has objectively and subjectively spread among IT workers. A legal entity contract is considered an odd form of work contract in that it does not fall under the scope of Brazil’s labor law. That is, instead of being hired as salaried workers with constitutional labor rights, most of today’s IT workers have to negotiate with companies as independent legal entities, thus overriding ordinary labor relations. Addressing these workers’ current situation implies debating the concepts of immaterial labor, production automation, productive restructuring, labor precariousness, and subjective transformation of workers, which in turn enable the grasp of changes in labor relations and in the capitalist mode of production.