Unrestrained outsourcing in Brazil

More Precarization and Health Risks for Workers

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5224167
AutoresGraça Druck (0000-0003-0363-6883, Universidade Federal da Bahia, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume32
Fascículo6
Data de publicação2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0102-311x00146315
PMID27333136
OpenAlexW2436700830
SCIELO_PIDS0102-311X2016000600502
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas2

This article discusses the current status of outsourcing in Brazil, with new regulation underway featuring a bill of law under review by the National Congress, aimed at allowing outsourcing for all activities. The authors argue that outsourcing and precarization of work are inseparable phenomena, based on the results of 20 years of research in Brazil that reveals the more precarious working conditions of outsourced workers in different occupational categories. They focus particularly on workers' health: outsourcing of risks has led to more fatal work accidents, invariably at higher rates in outsourced workers. Finally, the article contends that to remove restraints on outsourcing in Brazil amounts to legalizing and legitimizing predatory workforce exploitation, disregarding workers' physical limits, exposing them to risk of fatal accidents, and reverting to forms of work that violate the human condition

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Occupational safety and health · Outsourcing · Political science · Public relations · Work (physics) · Workforce · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Law · Marketing