Modernização e precarização: as condições de trabalho dos portuários em capatazia de Manaus – AM

Abstract

In this dissertation we try to reflect on the port workers loose in wharfage the city of Manaus. Workers those who performed their cargo handling activities and unloading of ships in the old port of Roadway, current Waterways Station Manaus, after the port modernization, and after its deactivation for cargo handling, forced these to carry out their activities and the sale of its workforce in the private terminals. Our aim was to discuss the forms of contracting work in this category, featuring seasonal and precarious, intrinsic feature of the port work, also trying to identify the risks to which these workers are subjected in developing the work process given the nature of the charges and the weight the same as though temporary dock work is based on automation, it still carries numerous risks to workers, as these characteristics of hazardous and unhealthy conditions remain as part of the nature of port work. We conducted a brief discussion on the inclusion of port labor in the decent work agenda, as recommended by the ILO Convention 137 which deals with the social repercussions in the new cargo-handling methods in ports, which brought many consequences for the category with the large reduction workers. Thus, the Brazilian port modernization performed after the nineties allowed the concession of port facilities to private capital. In Manaus, the port in wharfage were employees of the Administration of Public Port, and then laid off and going to be hired via hand governing body, carrying out its activities as demanded by the terminals by inserting it in the precarious environment given the seasonal nature of the work.