Work and Sociability

Abstract

Continuing the biannual publications of Revista Aurora, this issue presents the reader with the Work and Sociability dossier. The section begins with Marcelo Dias Carcanholo's reflection on the current economic crisis and its impacts on workers' organization. It continues with Osvaldo Coggiola, returning to the beginnings of workers' organization in France and England. Áurea Carvalho Costa addresses the notion of employability, understood as capital's strategy for the dispersion of the working class. Gilson Dantas presents an analysis of recent social struggles in France and raises the question of the revolutionary centrality of the working class. Alessandro de Moura analyzes the workers' movement in São Paulo's ABC, from the 1970s to the present day. It highlights the transformations that occurred during the period, pointing out the movement that goes from the emergence of the ABC workers' organization, which included large assemblies and strikes, to the fragmentation, resulting, according to the author, from the PT and CUTist orientation, which combined with the reorganization of the productive system and the implementation of neoliberal policies in the country. Claudia Mazzei Nogueira makes important contributions with an examination of social gender relations at work and social reproduction. Cristiano Monteiro da Silva closes the dossier section by rescuing the analyzes of Marxist classics on imperialism, especially that of Lenin. In the miscellaneous section, Rodolfo Arruda examines the criticism of contemporary authors such as Hall, Elias, Sennett and Bauman to the notion of individual present in classical thought. Fabio Mascaro Querido presents an essay entitledThe collapse of peripheral modernization: the Brazilian fracture of world capitalism. Anabela Maurício de Santana analyzes the gender issue in separation/divorce processes. Vagner Luís da Silva highlights the impacts of the North American social context at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century on social theory. The special section features the article New classist social movements, by Jair Pinheiro. This text presents the reflection developed by the professor at the round table: Balance of social movements in the 2000s, held on May 21st this year, which also included the participation of professors Fábio Ocada and Ricardo Festi. The executive committee of Revista Aurora, committed to criticizing the established order, has worked to expand the spaces for discussion on the most varied social problems and, thus, has been promoting thematic debates related to the magazine's dossiers every six months. This issue ends with Jean Paulo Pereira de Menezes' review of the book Koixomuneti: shamanism and healing practice among the Terenas, by Fernanda Schmuziger Carvalho.