THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF TEACHING WORK IN FEDERAL UNIVERSITIESThe article’s main objective is to reflect on the precariousness of teaching work in Brazilian federal universities, based on the assumption that it is one of the expressions of a more general process of restructuring the public service, resulting from the emergence and strengthening of the neoliberal State. In the case of the educational system, this restructuring instituted and promoted the principle of competition and the company model through the adoption of management practices based on criteria of “efficiency”, productivity and measurable results, profoundly changing the organization of work in educational institutions, particularly in Brazilian public universities. The text is divided into three main parts. The first presents some transformations that constitute the neoliberal State; the second part discusses the main changes in the Brazilian public service and, finally, examines how the adoption of the principle of competition and the business model has changed the organization of work in universities in a context of public underfunding, and has led to the precariousness of teaching work.
Key words:
Precariousness; Teachingwork; Federal Universities; Neoliberalism