Encompassing various fields of knowledge - sociology of labor, economy of labor, political economy, company administration, education and work and engineering -, this text presents the findings of a bibliographic research on the productive restructuring in Brazil. It then seeks to apprehend, despite all the limits, how such a phenomenon took place in the country and points out that, in the context of the new order of capital accumulation, its main characteristic is the intensification of the labor force exploitation. At the same time, it proposes a critical review of the concerned bibliography, pointing out the limits of its accounts.
Productive restructuring; New norms of accumulation; Work deterioration; Exploitation intensification; Literature review