Between the Law and the Case: Making Sense of Labor Inspectors’ Responses to Workplace Risks in Brazil
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2017.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : In this article, we contribute to discussions about risk management at the workplace. Drawing from extensive fieldwork by the Brazilian Labor Inspection Secretariat, we uncovered two implicit modes of production and justification of inspection work: “fiscal intelligence” and “social engineering.” These modes mediate the transformation of abstract labor laws into concrete cases of enforcement. We analyzed them in terms of reducing uncertainty and legitimating certain types of inspection actions, and of their repercussions for markedly different risk management approaches: one focusing on the financial sustainability of the system, another centered on embedding incentives for risk prevention in local relationships of production.
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In this article, we contribute to discussions about risk management at the workplace. Drawing from extensive fieldwork by the Brazilian Labor Inspection Secretariat, we uncovered two implicit modes of production and justification of inspection work: “fiscal intelligence” and “social engineering.” These modes mediate the transformation of abstract labor laws into concrete cases of enforcement. We analyzed them in terms of reducing uncertainty and legitimating certain types of inspection actions, and of their repercussions for markedly different risk management approaches: one focusing on the financial sustainability of the system, another centered on embedding incentives for risk prevention in local relationships of production.
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