Políticas sociais, incentivos fiscais e os movimentos do capital e do trabalho no caso Grendene

This thesis deals with the issue of social policies, specifically those related to labour, and the relationship between labour policies and movements of the capital within the capitalist system of production and exchange. We seek to analyze the state's position as a public authority on the building (or absence) of social policies, as a means of compensation out of the social consequences of this relationship. Therefore, it is a sociological, historical and economic analysis, from a critical view, seeking its understanding and observing position possibilities of the agents involved in this process especially for the working class a counterpoint on the capitalist stance towards the capital-labor relation. This study has, at the same time, a global scope, based on the existing literature on what has been called the transformation of capitalism at a world level; and another local dimension, centered on a specific Brazilian reality: the footwear industry, a fertile locus of the industrial restructuring process, which has been the symbol of capitalist industrial modernization since the 1970s, and its resonance to labour market. We study the case of Grendene enterprise movement, which has migrated its production complex between towns of Farroupilha/RS and Sobral /CE, and, considering its restructuring process as something beyond that migration of capital, including the public sector in this context, as a political factor in this process. Therefore, we used, in addition to literature review, also document analysis, semi-structured interviews and direct observation of both realities, trying to understand not only this phenomenon’s logic, but mainly the consequences for labor markets in both places, focusing on public social policies (or their absence) associated with that context. At the conclusion, we notice that, in addition to events arising from this complexe movement, there is an inherent pro-capital bias in it, specially towards the researched local policies.