Jovens trabalhadores das redes de fast food: experiência de trabalho e subjetividade

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the relationship established between the experience of youth workforce and the creation of their subjectivity, particularly of young people from fast food chains. It presents the debate about the understanding of work, in the light of Marxist conceptions, and its meaning today. It also presents the production models adopted by the capitalism in contemporary times and discusses their impact on the social life of the subject. It proposes a discussion on youth, based on the concept of generation and its position with regard to the labor market. In order to understand labor relations experienced by these young people, in addition to the literature research, a field research as carried out, which locus was the company McDonald's due to its expressiveness and scope. Interviews were conducted with young workers from two restaurants in the city of Juiz de Fora, favoring the angle comprised of their views and interpretations. From the understanding of indissociability between material and objective conditions experienced by the subject and the construction of subjectivity, historically and socially built up, it was possible to see the influence of the company on the subjective processes experienced by its workers, realizing that values disseminated by the company have great influence on the young and that the experience of exhausting work impairs the development of their subjectivities.