Discourses about labor reform in New High School textbooks

Abstract

This research breaks into the reformist scenario that marked Brazil during the government of Michel Temer, specifically, the objective of this study is to analyze speeches about the Labor Reform implemented by Law 13,467 of 2017. by the then President Michel Temer. Reformist postulations promote drastic changes in the labor scenario through total flexibility of work relations. To this end, we analyzed, based on the Foucauldian framework, statements present in textbooks that deal with the topic of work and make up the area of ​​Applied Human and Social Sciences, approved by the National Book and Teaching Material Program, 2021 edition, in accordance with the Reform of the New Secondary Education (Law No. 13,415/2017) and the National Common Curricular Base for Secondary Education of 2018. The methodology follows a descriptive-interpretive bias of a qualitative nature. The analysis of fragments collected from five textbooks allows us to problematize that labor reform is discursive in order to meet neoliberal demands, presupposing flexible workers, who develop skills and abilities that adapt them to a framework of insecurity, deregulation, and vulnerability of the labor sector that it extends to the educational bases with a view to acting in accordance with a project of a neoliberal governmentality of the subject.