Regina Lúcia Sanches Malassisse

This dissertation has the goal of analysing the issue of industrial job in Brazil in the 90's. To do so it is taken as reference the indicators of job, productivity and salaries of the industry of transformation. It's tried to identify hat the tendencies of the industrial work market are with reference to the forms of worker's insertion. Trough the data from the Annual Relation of Social Information (RAIS) it was verified that: the industrial job decreases fast in the decade; the number of small employers and industrial job in small companies has increased, although the duration of this job is threatened due to the fall of 36%, on average, of jobs created in small companies; forms of worker's insertion have evolved faster in big companies; on the other hand, the analysis of productivity shows that this has developed faster than the actual salaries. It is concluded that the adjustment done by industries in the 90's went through an intense reestructuring in the staff in order to reduce salary costs. This adjustment is more intense from 1994 on and has involved a bigger precariousness of work, as temporary hiring gains strength and more stable bonds are reduced. The other face of salary costs containment is expressed by a smaller evolution of actual salaries if compared with the increase in productivity and physical thus the 90's represent a perverse period for industrial work.