Colonialidade, gênero e mercado de trabalho: um diálogo entre a biopolítica e a necropolítica

Abstract

A reading of the working class in the modern-colonial context is made using the categories of Foucault's biopolitics and Mbembe's necropolitics. Such categories are used as a methodology for analyzing phenomena on the periphery of capitalism. The results show that the production of values has always been related to live work, however, with the advent of productive restructuring, based on flexible accumulation, companies have discarded labor (now under capitalism), in addition to the fact of the workers who kept their jobs, started to accumulate several functions. Therefore, it was identified that the precariousness of life has affected the working class, which is increasingly subjected to new forms of exploitation of the workforce, with formal workers in the biopolitics and informal workers in the necropolitics. This is because, the standard that governs capitalist society is based on the exchange values of goods, therefore, the subject not inserted in this process, is unnecessary for the system.