Popular economy as a claiming political category for Maria Inés Fernández Álvarez: the protective limits of labor law and the formation of social class

Abstract

The article focuses on the general objective of problematizing the need to open the epistemological edges of protective labor law, in addition to expressing the autonomy of the collective will through a repertoire of collective subjects of law, in the informal economy, outside the formalist normativity of collective labor law. The qualitative approach of this article is based on a bibliographic review of an interdisciplinary literature, current and classic, in the area of sociology of work, political philosophy, political economy and critical theory of human rights. Fundamental, therefore, is the understanding that work, in the face of neoliberal logic, comes to be understood as a cost, the reason for the phenomenon of accumulation by dispossession to expand the dimension of the real subsumption of work to capital. The delimitation of the problem and hypothesis of the article is shaped by the ineffectiveness of the social protection of workers in the popular economy in the face of the limits of the collective labor right, conceived in a context of free-subordinated work in an urban and industrial society. In the results of the bibliographic review, the article confirms the hypothesis of the protective limit of the collective labor right in the popular economy. It concludes, at the end, by capturing parameters of repertoires and the penetration of the conception of social class in groups of informal workers, as a demanding political category, forging belonging to the public space of production of labor value and in emancipatory práxis.