O direito do trabalho no contexto do neoliberalismo: introdução histórica para uma crítica à flexibilização das relações trabalhistas

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the labor law in the context of neoliberalism and the current and growing flexibility of labor rights. From literature, it analyzes the emergence of labor law, its achievements and setbacks from a historical and critical perspective, within the notion of liberal states, welfare states and neoliberal states. We conclude that in recent decades there has been an exponential neoliberalism advance and the consequent collapse of protective labor legislation, discrediting the employee around the world and especially in the countries of peripheral economy , such as Brazil , where more and more prevail neoliberal dictates at the expense of principles, rules and constitutional protection values to labor relations.