O apocalipse dos trabalhadores: breves considerações sobre o mundo do trabalho na pandemia

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic required reordering in the way we built life and, consequently, worked. The aim of this text is to present some considerations about the polymorphous world of work before and during the pandemic that also reveals its degree of precariousness in the face of the sanitary and socioeconomic crisis. Thus, during the pandemic we cut three work realities that present themselves: workers who can maintain physical distancing and who have guaranteed labor rights, workers of health and other essential activities and most brazilians who continue to work and are exposed to contamination. As paths, we point to the construction of scientific knowledge about the work with workers, the implementation of citizen’s basic income, the collective organization of workers considering some social markers of difference and other categories that hierarchize and exclude life in society and reflection on the activities essential for the production of life.