Estágio não Obrigatório no ensino superior: a flexibilidade e a precariedade do trabalho em tempos de crise

Abstract

The research presented here has as study object the Non-Mandatory Internship realized by students at the State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG) in Paraná. The problematic which guided this research was: How the Non-Mandatory Internship realized by the students at State University of Ponta Grossa has become effective in the current scenario of capitalism and what is its relation to the current forms of labor? Therefore, the general objective of the research is unveiling how is effectivated realization of the Non-Mandatory Internship and its current forms of labor in the context of capitalism. The method utilized for the investigation was Historical and Dialectical Materialism based on the writings by Antônio Gramsci (1976, 1978, 2001, 2007), and the central categories were Work, Hegemony and the State. The specific objectives were the following: a) Identifying how the students are living he Non-Mandatory

Internship at UEPG; b) Verifying the relations between the legal devices on Non- Mandatory Internship and its practical interpretation; c) Analyzing the characteristics of

the work in the contemporary context of capitalism under the influence of the neoliberal state and their possible relations with the Non-Mandatory Internship. To meet these objectives, the methodological resource is theoretical research focused on documents, with the analysis of Laws, Decrees and Ordinances which regulate the Internship, and the diagnostic qualitative approach with: the realization of interviews with interns and with the responsible for the hiring of interns at UEPG, the identification of quantity of interns at UEPG and the locations of actuation. The results indicate the new configurations of work, its flexibilization and the non-compliance with the legislation in its implementation and development of the Non-Mandatory Internship, open paths so the internships is collaborative to the capital, which might utilize the student’s labor as a form of economy in order to not hire a professional with a signed work card, what would call for larger pay and workers rights. In the university context analyzed, the data indicate that, even based on the students’ need of receiving the aiding scholarship, the activity of Non-Mandatory Internship is important for the professional formation, having in sight it offers experience for the future labor exercise.