Twelfth Global Studies Conference

Abstract

This research analyzes the new configurations of labor resulting from the processes of industrial restructuring and the insertion of new territories to the logic of global capitalist production. It discusses the processes of reespacialization of industrial sectors in Brazil, favored by the fiscal war between state and municipal governments, and the impacts of these processes in places without industrial tradition or organized labor. Outsourcing networks incorporate territories once linked to traditional rural activities and economically stagnant, that provide cheap and schooled labor. We have as an empirical focus in the sector of clothing and the automobile industry and the transfers, from the 1990s, of production units from the southeast region, dynamic economic center of the country, to the northeast region, with a production focused on the national and international market. The research has the support of CNPq - National Research Council of Brasil.