Pensions and Commodification Under the PT Governments (2003-2015)

An analysis of the development of the Brazilian pension system's issues under the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party-PT) governments focused on four main themes: austerity policy, payroll tax exemptions for employers, expansion of supplementary pensions, and union strategies associated with pension funds. The way the PT governments acted in these areas, despite expressing a different arrangement of interests from those of previous administrations that were self-declared neoliberal, did not change the general course of the comodification of social policy.