Trabalho e educação: a formação profissional de jovens operários

Abstract

The research aims to understand the impact of education for work in the constitution of young people and their working condition. For that analyzes the training offered by SENAI for young workers in the unit of the German company Mercedes-Benz in Juiz de Fora. The relationship between education and work has been affected by major economic and social transformations of the 1990s. Education came to be perceived as a privileged mechanism of ascent and insertion in the labor market. It is at this conjuncture that the young people from the working class build their life strategies. The education for work has become an area of ideological dispute: on the one hand, the progressive forces have formulated an education project together with the workers, which was defeated by the FHC government; on the other hand, the education project built in consonance with the interests of the capital and the market, in order to conciliate the education with the process of neoliberal adjustment. It is in the education for work space, hegemony by the capital, that young workers are formed. And in the relation with a survivor trade union action, they seek to establish linkages with their class condition. The research aims to show the strength of this education for work project in setting the subjectivity of young people, when they build their links with the working class, which reshapes in a scenario of reorganization of the working world.