THE STRUCTURALLY RESIDUAL PARTICIPATION OF THE BRAZILIAN CAPITALIST STATE IN THE REPRODUCTION OF THE LABOR FORCE

The article seeks to explore some contradictions about the structurally residual participation of the Brazilian capitalist state in the costs of reproduction and maintenance of the labor force. Such participation appears to be even more residual in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. From a critical perspective, bibliographic research was used as a methodological resource to mediate the analytical construction presented here. The text highlights state participation in the reproduction of the labor force, underlining the constitution of the Brazilian state, of a dependent type, placing it in the context of the advance of neoliberalism. In addition, we sought to make brief inferences about the worsening of living and working conditions in the context of the pandemic. As a result, it is argued that the type of capital development and the structural constitution of the Brazilian State maintains and deepens gradually and steadily the responsibility of workers for the costs of reproduction and maintenance of workforce in past, present and future.