Title: O "ajuste" neoliberal e a precarização do trabalho docente no governo José Serra em São Paulo
Abstract: The present work analyzes the educational policies developed and applied during the period 2007-2010 in the State of São Paulo during the Government of José Serra (PSDB), in order to understand its effects on the teaching work.Based on the regulatory framework proposed in the period, we conducted a documentary survey and data collected mainly from the State Department of Education and DIEESE, specifically from its subsection of APEOESP (Union of professionals of the official education of the State of São Paulo ).We try to understand if, and how, such measures implied the precariousness of work and the worsening of working conditions of teachers.In order to achieve these objectives, we analyze the norms that were implemented in this period, such as Laws, Decrees, Resolutions, Ordinances, Communications and Messages.The present text is divided in the three parts.The first part we present an analysis of the economic and social changes in capitalism and the emergence of neoliberalism and how this process impacted on the reconfiguration of work and specifically on teaching work.Following, we make a brief historical review of the neoliberal "adjustment" in Brazil and the emergence of management in the State of São Paulo.Finally, we present an analysis of the legislation applied in the period and its relation with the neoliberal recipe of neoliberal "adjustment" and New Public Management.As result achieved, we find that the policies developed and implemented in the government of José Serra meant a deepening of the precariousness of the teaching work, through the flexibilization of work, meritocracy, technocracy, employment instability, precarious contracts and dissemination of neoliberal ideas in education.