Flexible work and free time: Postmodern utopias

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https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v10i11.19372

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Flexiblework; Leisure; Utopia.

Abstract

The transformations in the world of work in the late 1990s and the first decades of the 21st century substantially altered the spatio-temporal relations and workers' productivity. New arrangements due to the informational and specialized nature of home office services have fostered the social belief that we are in the era of flexible work and free time. In this sense, the aim of this essay is to demonstrate that free time in Marx's perspective, possible only with the reduction of working hours, in post-modernity takes on a utopian guise in which, increasingly, the worker has been transforming the reserved period to rest in other forms of work such as uberization and telework. This study is bibliographic and what was found is that the fetish of flexibility and free time for the worker is one of the great attractions for adherence to types of flexible work, being another strategy of capitalism for the exploitation of labor physical and intellectual of the worker.

Author Biographies

Alessandro Fonseca Câmara, Instituto Federal do Norte de Minas Gerais

Graduated in Administration from the State University of Montes Claros (1996) Specialization in Strategic Management from UNIMONTES (2000), Specialization in Distance Education from UNIMONTES (2013). He is an Administrator at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Northern Minas Gerais - IFNMG. Coordinator of Administration and Planning at CEAD-IFNMG; It develops activities to support Distance Education. Participates in several committees and commissions for institutional development and especially for Education in the area covered by the IFNMG. Master's student in social development at UNIMONTES

Maria da Luz Alves Ferreira, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros

He holds a doctorate in Human Sciences (Sociology and Politics) (2007), from UFMG, and a master's degree in Sociology from the University of Brasília (2000). She is a full professor in the Department of Politics and Social Sciences and teaches in the Social Sciences Course and in the Postgraduate Program in Social Development at the State University of Montes Claros. Area of ​​expertise: Sociology, with an emphasis on Contemporary Sociological Theory, working mainly on the following themes: informal work, citizenship and gender relations, stratification and social inequalities: race, gender and class and Latin American sociology. She held the position of Head of the Department of Politics and Social Sciences at UNIMONTES in the 2007-2009 biennium, having been re-elected for the 2009-2011 biennium. She was a Productivity Scholar at the Research Support Foundation of the State of Minas Gerais - BIP/FAPEMIG (2015 and 2016). She was operational coordinator of the Interinstitutional Doctorate in Social Sciences agreement between the State University of Rio de Janeiro and the State University of Montes Claros 2012 - 2016. She was the associate coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Social Development - PPGDS in the biennium 2014-2016. She was Editor of Revista Argumentos from 2011 to 2017. She was coordinator of the Graduate Program in Social Development - PPGDS for the biennium 2016-2018. She is a researcher in the Study and Research Group on Evaluation of Public and Social Policies and in the Gender and Violence Research Group. It is a member of the Brazilian Network of Latin American and Caribbean Researchers - BLAC (since 2017) and a member of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences - CLASCO.

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CÂMARA, A. F.; FERREIRA, M. da L. A. . Flexible work and free time: Postmodern utopias. Research, Society and Development, [S. l.], v. 10, n. 11, p. e98101119372, 2021. DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v10i11.19372. Disponível em: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/19372. Acesso em: 20 apr. 2024.

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