An Overview of Urban Associated Labour in Brazil: Positive and Negative Aspects of Self-Management in the Productive Microcosm

A structural crisis of capital has plagued workers in all parts of the world since the 1970s and brought far-reaching consequences: bankruptcy of the totalitarian democracy of finance capital and the outbreak of innumerable revolts against this “democracy”; precarious processes of urbanisation, including “slummification” and the rise of gated condominiums; concentration of income and land; mass incarceration of miserable workers; increased unemployment; structural precariousness of labour; and the intensification of labour, the return of labour analogous to slavery and the growth of child labour.