This study discusses, from a historical-structural perspective, the recent trajectory (1980-2000) of the transformations of Brazilian economy, especially with regard to the implications for the labor market. Putting it briefly, there are three aspects of interest in the text. The first is related to the task of establishing logical-historical connections between the crisis in the Brazilian economy of the last twenty years (1980-2000) and the process of labor deregulation in the country. The second refers to defining and characterizing each of the two axes that, from our point of view, make up the scenario of labor deregulation in Brazil in recent years, as follows: destructuralization and deregulation of the labor market. Finally, the third aspect involves suggestions of some points to reflect on in order to build a positive agenda of changes, as a condition to overcome the binomial economic crisis and labor deregulation in Brazil.
economic crisis; deregulation; destructuralization; deregulamentation; labor market; Brazil
