Submitted by Morgana Silva (morgana_linhares@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-06-16T12:48:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 861581 bytes, checksum: 384d214855a71efc900f1c77384ca3ee (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-16T12:48:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 861581 bytes, checksum: 384d214855a71efc900f1c77384ca3ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-31 / The study aims to examine the relationship between the reduction of the working day and promoting employability, from a discussion of the necessary limitation of the flexibility of working hours. Although the working hours issue is recurrent in labor harvest, concern about it has been changing with the passage of time. In the late twentieth century, when the main problem in developed economies becomes unemployment, the discussion on the reduction of the working day takes on new meaning. The reduction of working hours around the center of the debate as a means of generating new jobs. In an attempt to address the structural and cyclical causes of unemployment, neoliberal ideology presents the flexibility of labor standards as a solution, by setting up a so-called single thought of hegemony of this model. To address the problem raised by this research: the reduction of working hours would be a mechanism capable of generating new jobs, the hypothesis presented goes against the neoliberal ideology attributed to flexibility, in that it believes that the reduction of journey work can influence the creation of new jobs, since the flexibility of working hours to be limited and not encouraged. Such limitations must be embodied in two mechanisms: limiting the use of overtime, with a consequent increase in the additional overtime and end of the hour bank of the institute. The research aims to demonstrate the arguments that justify the need to adopt such measures in case of reduction of working hours in Brazil through the deductive method of approach, the hermeneutic procedures, comparative and historical and bibliographical research technique. / O trabalho propõe-se a analisar a relação entre a redução da jornada de trabalho e o fomento à empregabilidade, a partir de uma discussão sobre a necessária limitação da flexibilização da jornada de trabalho. Embora o tema duração do trabalho seja recorrente na seara trabalhista, a preocupação com o mesmo foi mudando com o decorrer do tempo. No final do século XX, quando o principal problema encontrado nas economias desenvolvidas passa a ser o desemprego, a discussão em torno da redução da jornada de trabalho adquire novo significado. A redução da jornada de trabalho volta ao centro do debate como instrumento de geração de novos postos de trabalho. Na tentativa de combater as causas estruturais e conjunturais do desemprego, a ideologia neoliberal apresenta a flexibilização das normas trabalhistas como solução, através da montagem de um suposto pensamento único de hegemonia deste modelo. Para responder ao problema levantado por essa pesquisa: se a redução da jornada de trabalho seria um mecanismo capaz de gerar novos postos de trabalho, a hipótese apresentada vai de encontro à ideologia neoliberal atribuída à flexibilização, na medida em que acredita que a redução da jornada de trabalho pode influenciar na criação de novos postos de trabalho, desde que a flexibilização da jornada de trabalho seja limitada e não estimulada. Tal limitação deve estar consubstanciada em dois mecanismos: na limitação da utilização das horas extraordinárias, com o consequente aumento do adicional de horas extras e no fim do instituto do banco de horas. A pesquisa pretende demonstrar, para ao final propor, os argumentos que fundamentam a necessidade de adoção dessas medidas, em caso de redução da duração do trabalho no Brasil através do método de abordagem dedutivo, dos procedimentos hermenêutico, comparativo e histórico e da técnica de pesquisa bibliográfica.

The purpose of the study was to locate the informal hiring sites for day labourers in Tshwane, to determine the approximate number of day labourers, to describe the nature of socio-economic activities taking place at the sites, and to make recommendations to address needs that have been identified. The research approach and methodology was exploratory, descriptive, quantitative and qualitative. In terms of the findings, 80 informal hiring sites were identified in Tshwane with approximately 3032 day labourers standing at the sites. Case studies were done on three sites and it was found that they were hazardous and lacked basic facilities such as shelter and toilets. Employer-employee interactions were also found to be haphazard and sometimes manipulative and exploitative. It is recommended that intervention programmes should be implemented which could include the provision of basic facilities, skills development, job search assistance and access to comprehensive social services. / Health Studies / M.A. (Social Science - Mental Health)

This thesis explored the fathering practices of precariously employed African men with the study objectives including understanding: (1) how precariously employed men construct fatherhood; (2) the fathering practices considered important to them; (3) in what way precarious employment impacts on their fathering practices; and (4) how precariously employed men negotiate between their children’s economic as well as socio-emotional needs. This research focused particularly on the experiences of roadside work-seekers in Parow, Cape Town, seeking to understand how they construct fatherhood within their precarious working conditions. What these men think about fatherhood is important particularly in South Africa where not only unemployment is high, but also the rates of children growing up without their fathers. An ethnographic study was conducted during which data was collected using both participant observation and semi-structured interview methods. This thesis reports on interviews conducted with 46 men over a period of seventeen weeks. The findings reveal that the majority of roadside work-seekers are migrants (both internal and cross border) who have families to provide for. This study also revealed having children as one of the main reasons men engage in precarious work activities. Also highlighted is the extent to which precarious work impact the lives of those involved to the extent that it affects their relationships with their children, families and intimate partners. The majority of day labourers, due to being unemployed also do not live with their children, with many being denied access as a result of a breakdown in their relationship with the mother of the child, but also as a result of being unable to fulfil certain traditional requirements expected of men who impregnate women out of wedlock in some African cultures. Finally, this study confirmed the various ways in which men engaged in precarious employment are exposed to high levels of poverty, homelessness, substance abuse, violence and crime, and racism, discrimination and exploitation. / Psychology / D. Phil. (Psychology)

The purpose of the study was to locate the informal hiring sites for day labourers in Tshwane, to determine the approximate number of day labourers, to describe the nature of socio-economic activities taking place at the sites, and to make recommendations to address needs that have been identified. The research approach and methodology was exploratory, descriptive, quantitative and qualitative. In terms of the findings, 80 informal hiring sites were identified in Tshwane with approximately 3032 day labourers standing at the sites. Case studies were done on three sites and it was found that they were hazardous and lacked basic facilities such as shelter and toilets. Employer-employee interactions were also found to be haphazard and sometimes manipulative and exploitative. It is recommended that intervention programmes should be implemented which could include the provision of basic facilities, skills development, job search assistance and access to comprehensive social services. / Health Studies / M.A. (Social Science - Mental Health)

This thesis explored the fathering practices of precariously employed African men with the study objectives including understanding: (1) how precariously employed men construct fatherhood; (2) the fathering practices considered important to them; (3) in what way precarious employment impacts on their fathering practices; and (4) how precariously employed men negotiate between their children’s economic as well as socio-emotional needs. This research focused particularly on the experiences of roadside work-seekers in Parow, Cape Town, seeking to understand how they construct fatherhood within their precarious working conditions. What these men think about fatherhood is important particularly in South Africa where not only unemployment is high, but also the rates of children growing up without their fathers. An ethnographic study was conducted during which data was collected using both participant observation and semi-structured interview methods. This thesis reports on interviews conducted with 46 men over a period of seventeen weeks. The findings reveal that the majority of roadside work-seekers are migrants (both internal and cross border) who have families to provide for. This study also revealed having children as one of the main reasons men engage in precarious work activities. Also highlighted is the extent to which precarious work impact the lives of those involved to the extent that it affects their relationships with their children, families and intimate partners. The majority of day labourers, due to being unemployed also do not live with their children, with many being denied access as a result of a breakdown in their relationship with the mother of the child, but also as a result of being unable to fulfil certain traditional requirements expected of men who impregnate women out of wedlock in some African cultures. Finally, this study confirmed the various ways in which men engaged in precarious employment are exposed to high levels of poverty, homelessness, substance abuse, violence and crime, and racism, discrimination and exploitation. / Psychology / D. Phil. (Psychology)