PRODUCTIVE WORK IN TOURISM AND THE LABORATIVES ADVENTURES OF THE "CORTÊS WORKER"

Abstract

The present study comprehends the productive work in tourism, its settings and the lack of a professional group that is able to question all forms of employment in the sector. Contemplating the dynamics that generates and moves the capital, which has as its foundation the production, carried out by social groups in work activity to private appropriation of its results, it is done a theorist reflection about the elements of this process and its social and space repercussions. Exemplifying with tourism area, especially the segment of hospitality and leisure, with the so-called Resorts, it shows that these organizations are just like ideal models of corporate organization made to increase the rates of surplus value in its absolute form. Using the premiss of raise job, such ventures are based and justified by the State through public politics of incentives, as an expressive tribute exemption. However, their economic practicability is strongly linked to the advantages of find cheap and politically unorganized labor - facts that allow a super-exploration of their employees. A concrete case of productive work in tourism is presented from an interview with an employee of a resort owned by an international group which works in the coast of Bahia. With this example, the present study intends to clarify organizational strategy to originate surplus value – which one is based upon a confiscate of the subjectivity and on the merger of working time with the free time -, as well as confirm and reafirm the pertinence, relevance and timeliness of Marxian theoretical reflection to understand the contemporary social relations of production.