O trabalho feminino na microrregião de Toledo: novas dinâmicas e reconfigurações no território a partir da instalação dos frigoríficos de aves

Abstract

Upon observing the Brazilian work market in the last decades, it is possible to observe that a series of changes in the work organization and relationships have been occurring. These changes provide new territorial dynamics of the work, promoted mainly by the capital expansion by the appropriation of natural potentialities and the use of female work. In this sense, it has been noted that the capitalist expansion overlaps the work relationships, pointing out new ways of accumulation by worker s profiteering. Thus, upon analyzing the process of capitalist expansion engendered over the West of Paraná, it has been observed that his process has been linked to the installation of food industry, especially the presence of eight unities of meat processing. However, it has been verified that the process of capitalist expansion occurs with higher intensity in the micro-region of Toledo, due to the presence of three slaughterhouses (Copagril, C.vale and BRF Sadia) which have great representativeness in the regional and state scenarios. Based on these correlations it has been discussed issues about the strategies of capital accumulation considering the work precariousness and the use of female work. In this perspective, the present research aims to debate the reconfigurations which took place in the micro-region of Toledo, as well as to analyze the factors which fostered the women s insertion in the work market with the goal to understand their trajectories, dilemmas and difficulties