In the case of Belo Horizonte, various measures were adopted in order to minimize the situation regarding precarity of work and employment in the National Health Service-Belo HorizoNational Health Service-Belo
Precarity at work is maybe affecting 40% of the population.
Stress and anxiety, from precarity at work, in housing and in terms of income from benefits, don't just affect a person's emotional wellbeing, they manifest physically.
The fragmentation of work, the spread of precarity and the stratification of workforces all point to one conclusion: the working class is fundamentally changing, and our conceptions of class have to catch up with that.
Taken together with the transformation of the private sector, the destruction of unionised sectors, and the spread of precarity in work, this has dramatically changed the fabric of everyday experience.
The increasing precarity of work in health care has been a source of concern for managers at all levels of government and has been a priority agenda item for the National Council of Municipal Health Secretaries [ Conselho Nacional de Secretários Municipais de Saúde (CONASEMS) [34].
In order to reverse this situation, the National Programme to Reduce Precarity of Work (Programa Nacional de Desprecarização do Trabalho) was set up in the National Health Service in order to encourage stable work relations, guarantee workers' rights and to gradually eradicate the precarious work relations in this sector.
The rise in temporary employment, the tendency for the ageing of permanent workers and the drop in workers' purchasing power during the period from 2002 to 2006 are indicative of the process of increasing precarity of work and justify government policies aimed at reversing this tendency.
One might take solace in the employment flexibility offered by Uber, but even that is just a function of the overall precarity of the working population: with so many people out of work and struggling to get by, Uber can be assured that there will always be somebody, somewhere, willing to drive, if only for a few hours.
Even better to eradicate the precarity in sporadic work through state provision of the basic necessities.
