Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T13:27:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2773968 bytes, checksum: 6b8997dcef820b32745c2b65a6663619 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This thesis aims to analyze the aspects of working at home and family relations in the production of clothes made of jeans in the city of Toritama PE, as well as to learn about the duties and responsibilities that men and women have played in the domestic production process, emphasizing the social relations that are outlined in this space. The scenario of recent socioeconomic changes associated with globalization and the spread of forms of flexible production has caused changes in the world of work, the emergence of new forms of production organization, as well as the reediting of others which were considered archaic, but are adapted to the current dynamics of capital which is the case of working at home even when they rise far from this process, as the case of the Region of Jeans Clothes Manufacturers in the city of Toritama PE, locus of this research. This is a qualitative study and documentary research, semi-structured interviews as well as participant observation were used as methodological resources, focusing on a critical analysis of the objective and subjective elements that permeate the reality of families linked to the process of working at home. It was found that, despite the apparent exuberance and modernization that comes through the region with the expansion of the jeans industry, the assumption that this dynamic organization of home work could be providing more egalitarian ways of access to activities, the exchange of knowledge, control of the production process as well as the relations between men and women within the family was not thoroughly confirmed. However, there was confirmation in relation to the assumption that the economic dynamics experienced by these production units at home changed family relationships, causing a greater emotional distance among its members as a result of assignments in production, both in relation to smaller children and older children who were more directly involved in the production process. / Esta tese tem como objetivo analisar as configurações do trabalho a domicílio e as relações familiares nas confecções de roupas de jeans no município de Toritama-PE, bem como apreender as atribuições e competências que homens e mulheres têm desempenhado no âmbito do processo produtivo e doméstico, enfatizando as relações sociais que se delineiam nesse espaço. O cenário das recentes transformações socioeconômicas associadas ao processo de globalização e a disseminação de formas de produção flexíveis têm suscitado mudanças no mundo do trabalho, o aparecer de novas formas de organização da produção, bem como a reedição de outras, consideradas arcaicas, mas que são adaptadas à atual dinâmica do capital, caso do trabalho a domicílio, mesmo quando surgem ao largo desse processo maior, como o caso do Polo de confecções de roupas de Jeans de Toritama PE, lócus desta pesquisa. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, em que foram utilizadas, como recursos metodológicos, a pesquisa documental, a entrevista semiestruturada e a observação participante, privilegiando uma análise crítica dos elementos objetivos e subjetivos que permeiam a realidade das famílias vinculadas ao trabalho a domicílio. Foi constatado que apesar da exuberância e da aparente modernização por que vem passando a região com a expansão da indústria de confecção de jeans, a suposição de que diante esta dinâmica a organização do trabalho a domicílio pudesse estar proporcionando formas mais igualitárias de acesso às atividades, à troca de saberes, ao controle do processo produtivo, bem como nas relações entre homens e mulheres no âmbito familiar, não se confirmou completamente. Entretanto, houve confirmação em relação à suposição de que a dinâmica econômica vivenciada por essas unidades produtivas a domicílio teria alterado as relações familiares, provocando um maior distanciamento afetivo entre seus membros, em decorrência das atribuições na produção, tanto no que se refere aos filhos menores como aos filhos maiores que estavam envolvidos diretamente no processo produtivo.

Globalisation, internet and digitalisation has given cause to vast changes in society, where the individual is to an ever greater extent extradited to oneself through individualisation, flexibilisation and informatisation. Taken together this known as institutional individualisation. Globalisation, internet and digitalisation has facilitated a plethora of possibilities for remote work, i.e. white collar work that is not confined to a dedicated office area, but rather being undertaken on the go, at home or in a hotel lobby. As the global spread of Covid-19, office work has taken on new dimensions forcing employees to conduct their work within the context of the private sphere, thus altering working fromhome (WFH) into working athome (WAH). This is here researched, using a combination of critical theory and social critical realism.            In this master’s dissertation, WAH full time due to Covid-19, has therefore been set in relation to institutional individualisation and its incusing on contemporary society. Thus, against the background of individualisation, flexibilisation and informatisation, and how they together comprise our everyday working lives in the organisations where we, by means of making a living, every day partake, the changed nature of the relation between the private and the professional sphere has here been investigated. Eleven semi structured in-depth interviews, in addition to four confirmatory interviews, have served to give new insights on the social im­pli­cations of WAH. These are presented in six verified hypo­thesises, with subordinate clauses. Taken together, these in turn serve to illustrate a catalysed institutionalised individualism, and a usurpation of the private sphere, by the pro­fessional sphere, while simultaneously instigating a perceived free will, making the trans­formation a choice of the employee him- or herself. / Globalisering, internet och digitalisering har givit upphov till stora samhälleliga förändringar, där individen i allt större utsträckning utlämnas till sig själv genom individualisering, flexi­bilisering och informatisering. Sammantaget kallas detta för institutionaliserad individ­ualism. Globalisering, internet och digitalisering har också faciliterat en pletora av möjligheter till distans­arbete, dvs tjänstearbete som inte är begränsat till den dedikerade kontorsytan, utan snarare utförs på språng, i hemmet eller i en hotellobby, alltså på distans. Med den globala spridningen av Covid-19, har kontorsarbete tagit nya dimensioner och tvingat de anställda att utföra sitt arbete i kontext av den privata sfären, och därmed förändrat arbete frånhemmet (WFH) till arbete ihemmet (WAH). Detta har här beforskats medelst en kombination av kritisk teori och social kritisk realism.            I denna magisteruppsatsen har heltidsarbete i hemmet, med anledning av Covid-19, därför satts i relation till institutionaliserad individualism och dess prägling av det samtida samhället. Mot bakgrund av individualisering, flexibilisering och informalisering, och hur de tillsammans utgör våra vardagliga arbetsliv i de organisationer där vi, genom förtjänandet av vårt levebröd, varje dag deltar, har förändringar i relationen mellan privat och professionell sfär således undersökts. Elva semistrukturerade djupintervjuer, har tillsammans med fyra bekräft­ande intervjuer, tjänat nya insikter om sociala implikationer av arbete i hemmet. Dessa presen­teras genom sex verifierade hypoteser, med tillhörande under­klausuler. Samman­taget tjänar dessa i sin en illustration av katalyserad institutionaliserad indi­vid­ualism och den profess­ionella sfärens usurpering av den privata sfären, samtidigt som en uppfattad egen vilja konstituerar transformationen som själv­vald.