ProJovem Urbano no município de São Gonçalo/RJ e seus impactos sobre a inserção de jovens no mercado de trabalho

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze possible impacts of the federal Brazilian program PROJOVEMURBANO to promote the integration or reintegration of young graduates of this program in the municipality of São Gonçalo, State of Rio de Janeiro. Anchored in critical theoretical perspectives on policies for professional education directed to young adults and the working class, among them the contributions of Frigotto (2008), Rummert and Alves (2010), Draibe (1993), Filgueiras (2006), Santos (2009) and Pochmann (2001), the research sought to answer the following questions: What conceptions of education and work advocated by the ProJovem URBANO and intended for young people's participation in the local labor market? Does the program meet the expectations of young people who participated? To understand the possible integration or reintegration of students, from a methodological standpoint, we perform the mapping of the demands of the São Gonçalo labor market having as a research job ads taken from newspapers and data from the O Fluminense General Register of Employed and Unemployed in the biennium 2010-2011, crucial to check the conditions of the labor market to be faced by former participants of the Urban Projovem. Concurrently, we conducted interviews with young graduates of the program in order to analyze whether or not it met their expectations, indeed, if the integration or reintegration desired by young and widely publicized by the program had been realized. Through these interviews, involving the mapping of the typing of jobs advertised in the newspaper and its relation to the education required, it is understood that the inserts of professional graduates remained flexible, temporary and precarious, not significantly altering the position labor market for them so far experienced. Accordingly, we conclude provisionally that the impacts of Projovem URBANO have limits in relation to promoting education and training to break with the logic of subordination and impoverishment of the worker. On the other hand, it can be stated that the participation of youth in the program can mobilize energies to continue their studies, raising the profile of education.