Global productive chains and decent work management technologies: sociological evidences from Brazil

Caroline Jacques; Rodrigo Rafael  Mueller

doi:10.31686/ijier.vol8.iss12.2807

Authors

Caroline Jacques Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense
Rodrigo Rafael Mueller University of the Extreme South of Santa Catarina (UNESC)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol8.iss12.2807

Keywords:

Global Productive Chains, Decent Work, Management Technologies, Precarious Work

Abstract

The article presents a reflection on decent work management technologies in the global productive chains. Based on economic sociology and anthropology authors, it discusses the general characteristics of the global productive chains, especially the concept of decent work as a management technology for the labor´s international regulation. The empirical focus of this research was a clothing manufacturing productive chain in the south of Santa Catarina. Interviews were carried out with social and economic actors that are part of this sector, in particular, unions and entrepreneurs. As a conclusion, it is important to highlight that decent work management technologies have the formal merit of inserting the decent work guidelines into the contracts between the suppliers and subcontractors. However, the research points out that the asymmetries in the financial negotiations which are typical of the productive chains continue to promote precarious and informal work in the sector.

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