Apresentação: Estado de bem-estar social à brasileira

The introduction to the Dossier "Non-Salaried Work and Rights" presents a brief discussion of the concept of labor decommodification, emphasizing that its definition, restricted only to salaried employment relationships, is insufficient when applied to highly heterogeneous labor markets such as Brazil’s, where wage employment is not the universal form of work relations. The four articles that make up the dossier are summarized, and their main ideas are used as part of the discussion on the limitations of social security policies in Brazil and possible ways to overcome them.