New Configurations of Informal Work in Brazil: Besides the Informal, Short of Rights

This work aims to examine the non-wage based labour relations and understand its implications for the State and Society. These kinds of labour relations have been referred to as "informal" or "non typical". In this sense, they have been viewed academically and politically as lacking or unviable.

However, if it is true that from the perspective of the traditional labour institutions (Unions, State, and the juridical forms of labour regulation) these labour relations are aliens and cannot be characterized but for absence of the key attributes that traditionally have defined labour, in the context of political and economical changes that took place in the past decades, these labour relations are an important part of the accumulation model and have generated new fields of conflict and have been trying to get politically organized, building identity and pushing forward with their agenda.

The first part of the work focus on understanding the theoretical and political implications of the non wage based relations for labour relations in general. On the second part, we try to understand the emergence of this new reality and the development of new political subjects with their own agendas and identities. However, although these labour relations and its workers are not informal, they still not recognized in their relation with the State as having rights