Os impactos da exploração do trabalho no processo de envelhecimento da classe trabalhadora no Brasil

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the impacts of labor exploitation on the aging process of the working class in Brazil. Aging is understood as a process marked by the class position that individuals occupy in the capitalist system which determines how individuals live in this society, also influenced by factors such as gender, race, class, and territory. To achieve the proposed objective, the methodological procedures were based on Marx's critical thought, using the historical-dialectic materialism method, with a qualitative and descriptive approach, through a literature review, using authors who discuss the structural relations of the capitalist system and its expressions in Brazilian society and who address aging from a critical perspective, crossed by multiple determinations. The results obtained show that the aging process of the working class is marked by the precariousness of living and working conditions, denial of access to health care, dismantling of social protection, and social devaluation of older people, who are considered unproductive by capital. Thus, it can be concluded that capitalist society does not provide dignified conditions for the aging and old age of the working class, resulting in poverty, inequality, illness, and ageism.