A REGULAMENTAÇÃO DA PROFISSÃO DE MOTORISTA: ASPECTOS SOCIAIS E ECONÔMICOS DOS MOTORISTAS EMPREGADOS NO TRANSPORTE RODOVIÁRIO DE CARGA EM PONTA GROSSA-PR

Abstract

This present research is a case study of employed drivers in road freight transport in the municipality of Ponta Grossa, Paraná, and aims to identify the social and economic aspects and analyze the achievement of comprehensive working hours of these professionals after the Law n. 12.619/2012, which regulates the profession of the driver. The research of quantitative and qualitative character was made from the triangulation method, and the bibliographic and documentary allowed the systematization of theoretical and methodological framework from which the main analytical categories emerged: State, capitalism, work, occupation, wage, fight classes, salary and working hours. In the second phase of triangulation, a situational analysis was used to present the scenario that was established after the promulgation of the law, identifying key actors, the movements, the contradictions that arose from the significant event in this context understood as the enactment of law that shifted from the legislative to the society, especially for highways and for the category of professional drivers, the struggle and the class conflicts. The elements identified by the first two methods were used for the preparation of the interview questionnaire which was applied in the research field with the employed drivers. The data obtained from the interviews were collected and subsequently became the main information about the practice of professional life of the driver and also the socioeconomic profile of the professional in the city, whose information was correlated with the documentary evidence and the provisions of Law n. 12.619/2012.