This work aims to analyze the social protection network of the private initiative workers. It has also as its objective to reveal some elements of influence of this network on the construction of the conceptions of social rights and citizenship by the workers. With the process of retraction of the State as a supplier of assistance to the worker, private companies, through the benefits that compose its nets of private social protection, are supplying this gap. This process reaffirms the concept of regulated citizenship in the sense that just a selected group of workers is contemplated for such benefits - and only this group has access to quality health, food and education. At the same time it is possible to point out the trashing of the mechanisms of the welfare state, especially in the cases of health care and education. Based in a documentary and bibliographical survey and also in a field research with a sampling of the workers of the Furnas Power Plants System, Brazil, this study demonstrated that the conceptions on social rights and citizenship, on the part of the searched workers, suffers influences from private network of social protection. However, the interviews had demonstrated another significant influence: the spelling of the class that lives of the work what establishes one strong linking with the access (or no access) of the works to the benefits of the company. Another interesting point is the fragility of organization of these workers in the present time. Because of this, these benefits are not considered rights but instead favors or mechanisms of enterprise management with the objective to reach greater consensus and productivity levels.