Cadernos de Psicologia Social do Trabalho
The Journal of Social Psychology of Work (JSPW) is an on-line, open access, interdisciplinary academic journal which operates in a Continuous Article Publishing (CAP) mode. It aims at promoting scientific production in the fields of Work and Organizational Processes from the Social Psychology perspective, as well as from other fields in humanities and social sciences which fall within the scope of critical perspectives. Priority will be given to contributions that present reflections on concrete situations and propositions that advance in transformation processes towards health promotion and the guarantee of workers' rights. In this sense, Work is considered a central category as well as the Workers’ point of view, marking an epistemological and ethical-political difference from the managerial approaches which consider workers as human resources. This journal welcomes articles based on diverse theoretical readings, original and unpublished, in the following formats: research, intervention and experience reports, as well as theoretical essays. Literature reviews are only accepted when used to support a consistent theoretical discussion. After consultation with the editors, book reviews, translations and interviews may be accepted. The journal’s target audience includes students, academics, researchers, academics and professionals from Psychology and related areas interested in the field of Work and Organizational Processes. ISSN 1981-0490 cpst@ups.br
Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Psicologia
Interview with Rick Azevedo: For a Life Beyond Work – For the End of the 6x1 Work Schedule
The interview presented here was conducted in person on the morning of November 11, 2025, at the office of Councilman Rick Azevedo in the Rio de Janeiro City Council. The interviewee, Rick Azevedo, is the founder of the movement “Life Beyond Work – For the End of the 6x1 Work Schedule” (VAT), and the interviewer was Professor Flávia Manuella Uchôa de Oliveira, faculty member at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), who conceived and developed the text in partnership with Professor Juliano Almeida Bastos, from the University of Pernambuco (UPE). The text is organized into four parts. The first explains why we chose to interview workers. The second presents the movement “Life Beyond Work – For the End of the 6x1 Work Schedule” (VAT), of which Rick Azevedo is the founder and main representative. We believe that these introductory remarks provide the context for the third part, a brief note about the interviewee, and for the fourth part, the interview itself. The interview consists of the transcription of more than 50 minutes of conversation in which Rick Azevedo discusses his trajectory, his experiences working under the 6x1 schedule, the founding of VAT, and the future of the movement. To complement the information provided, we used footnotes and brackets when necessary in order to preserve coherence and the flow of reading. At the end, we offer concluding remarks and the references used throughout the text. As we have stated elsewhere (Sato et al., 2024), one of our tasks is to contribute to the construction and preservation of the memory of Work Social Psychology (PST) and of the working class. We hope that this interview will become another contribution to this endeavor.
Copyright (c) 2026 Flávia M. Uchôa de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Subjectivity and higher education teaching: living and working in the channels of the Amazon rivers
Living and working in the Amazonian countryside can reveal distinct forms of subjectivation. In addition to the transformations of teaching work shaped by market demands, the singularities of working in the context of small Amazonian cities stand out. The objective of this research was to analyze the lifestyles and work organization of teachers working in small cities in the state of Amazonas. The research is qualitative in nature, with ten teachers working in the Amazonian countryside interviewed. The data were systematized via Core of Meaning Analysis, and Psychodynamics of Work was employed to analyze and discuss the results. The study revealed a reality in which lifestyles are directly related to subjective experiences at work. In this regard, precarious working conditions and infrastructure in the cities were highlighted. Although pleasure and suffering coexist, there are signs of psychosocial health risks for this group of workers, intensified primarily by work overload, which can result in mental illness.
Copyright (c) 2026 Thiago Rodrigues Cavalcante, Socorro de Fátima Moraes Nina, Rosângela Dutra de Moraes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Camgirls: sex work and platformization from the perspective of the Social Psychology of Work
Camgirls are young women who perform erotic shows on specialized online platforms. The practice of camming is marked by inequalities related to gender, race, and class, raising new questions about its relationship with neoliberalism and the platformization of labor. This study aimed to investigate the psychosocial effects of working as a camgirl, focusing particularly on mental health and subjectivity, from the perspective of the workers themselves. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three camgirls. The resulting data were organized into thematic categories based on the theoretical-methodological framework of the Social Psychology of Work. The findings indicate that this type of labor involves providing emotional support and attentive listening to clients, as well as a variety of demands that impact the mental health and subjectivity of the workers. Psychosocial effects include apprehension related to revealing their identity at work, which is often subject to stigma and prejudice. In conclusion, it became evident that the platformization in camming, coupled with the absence of formal employment ties, violates fundamental labor rights and leaves significant marks on the mental health of the workers.
Copyright (c) 2026 Marta de Castro A. Bichir, Cris Fernández Andrada, Marcelo Camargo Batistuzzo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
After so long, we now have a translation of the book “Esperienza operaia, conscienza di classe e psicologia del lavoro”. The Portuguese version gave rise to the organization of the round table “Activity clinic, ergology and ergonomics: a translation of Ivar Oddone”, which took place on October 18, 2023 at the USP Institute of Psychology, during the V International Colloquium on Activity Clinic: Intervention Practices, Analysis and Transformation of Work (V CICA). Given the immense importance of the book and the richness of the presentations at the round table, it was suggested to the editorial board of Cadernos de Psicologia Social do Trabalho that this tribute to Ivar Oddone and his team in Turin be published.
Copyright (c) 2024 Fábio de Oliveira http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Worker–Animal bond: psychological effects of violence against animals in slaughterhouses
This article aims to discuss how work in slaughterhouses, particularly animal slaughter, impacts workers’ mental health. The investigation sought to explore the individual’s experience in their work, characterize the connection between the slaughterer and the animal, and examine the implications of slaughter that unfold in personal and occupational life, uncovering fundamental mechanisms of submission to the functioning of the meat industry. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted, in which eight slaughterhouse workers were interviewed. The collected data were analyzed using the hermeneutic-dialectical methodology. The results show that working conditions are harmful to workers’ health, and the suffering caused by the adverse conditions in the slaughter of non-human animals is normalized, turning empathy into apathy. Contemporary challenges require sustainable and integrated solutions to promote the health of humans, animals, and the environment as a whole.
Copyright (c) 2025 Luigia Salerno, Andreia de Conto Garbin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
"Work environment" and "Worker experience": theoretical tools for atypical and transformative collaboration between workers and health specialists
The book "Workers' experience, class consciousness and psychology of work" was used by millions of workers who became the protagonists of the analysis of their work, without having to appeal to external specialized categories that would have fragmented their experience. At the same time, this system allowed specialists ( physicians, psychologists, safety experts, etc.) to discover the enormous scientific advantage of knowing the real work and, therefore, understanding the risks and reducing or anticipating the damage that work actually entails. As Ivar Oddone used to say: to change, you have to know. And here, at last, we knew, in a structured and comparable way, the harmfulness, making full use of two joint languages. The historical, idiographic language of workers who experience first-hand how spaces, light, noise, technology and organization are transformed into working practices, and the analytical language of the scientific community, capable of detecting and anticipating risks. As a result, a new and atypical collaboration has developed between workers and specialists, transforming thousands of workplaces.
Copyright (c) 2024 Alessandra Re http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The work of caring in the pandemic: intersections between gender and mental health in hospitals
The covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the deaths of more than 4,500 healthcare professionals in Brazil, which has driven discussions on healthcare work in the context of public health emergencies and disasters. The precariousness of work in the healthcare sector, the restriction of proper personal protective equipment (PPE), excessive exposure to traumatic situations, and the lack of psychological support exacerbated this situation, particularly affecting women who constituted the majority among healthcare workers. This study aimed to comprehend the emergence of vulnerabilities in mental health among hospital workers during the covid-19 pandemic by examining gender relations. For this purpose, in-depth online interviews were conducted using a semi-structured script with 19 healthcare professionals, out of which 15 were women, from different job categories who worked on the frontlines of the pandemic response throughout 2020 and 2021. The data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. It was found that the scenario of deteriorating working conditions during a health crisis, combined with a denialist political-social context and intertwined with gender, social class, and occupational status oppressions, pushed the workers to confront the pandemic at the brink of their physical and mental well-being. We understand that it is necessary to promote formal and informal support networks in mental health, as well as policies and actions that equally value all healthcare professions, ensuring dignified working conditions for everyone.
Copyright (c) 2025 Natacha Cibele Mattos, Tonantzin Ribeiro Gonçalves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Book review of "Experiência operária, consciência de classe e psicologia do trabalho" by Ivar Oddone, Alessandra Re, and Gianni Briante
The recent publication of the book by Ivar Oddone, Alessandra Re and Gianni Briante has filled a major gap in our publications. Although the authors have disseminated one of the most innovative practices in the approach to the work-health relationship, until now, those interested in the subject have not had a Portuguese version. This considerable delay may lead us to question the reasons for bringing a book published several decades ago to Brazil, in a context that is totally different from the one we live in today. Is it the result of a dated experience that was important at the time, but no longer meets any of our current needs?
Copyright (c) 2024 Maria Elizabeth Antunes Lima http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Rediscovering the workers' experience: heritage projects for the Ergological Approach to Work
The aim of this text is to point out the assumptions and research tools in the vast work of Ivar Oddone and his team in Turin in the 1960s and 1970s, and then to compare the critical appropriations made by Yves Schwartz in various texts that underpin the Ergological Approach to Work. Our interest in understanding and transforming work keeps the dialogue between these two lines of thought alive.
Copyright (c) 2024 Daisy Moreira Cunha http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The heritage of "Experiência operária, consciência de classe e psicologia do trabalho" and ergonomics
The publication of the Brazilian edition of the book "Workers' experience, class consciousness and work psychology" by Ivar Oddone, Alessandra Re and Gianni Briante could be the occasion for the appropriation of important contributions from the Workers' Model to Brazilian researchers who are interested in work and development of expanded scientific communities. The reinterpretation of Workers' Experience is done here from the perspective of ergonomics, one of the disciplines that the Workers' Model seeks to appropriate and overcome. It highlights points that can be considered outdated by the current development of the discipline, points that can be the subject of still lively debates and lasting contributions that make it, more than a classic and testimony of an era, a work that is still contemporary, almost half a century after its publication. Issues such as the relationship between work experience and work science and the construction of an expanded multidisciplinary scientific community still find interesting proposals in this work to deal with difficulties and problems that have not yet been overcome.
Copyright (c) 2024 Francisco de Paula Antunes Lima http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The labors of social research: approaches to the dramas experienced by domestic workers
This essay discusses the empirical journeys by a social researcher in producing his PhD thesis. It prioritizes practical notes on the study processes, approaches to reality, and the writing of the text. It aims to reflect on how the ability to investigate and interpret information in social research requires constantly aligning the possibilities of the field, observations of social reality, and the theoretical contributions which help to illuminate this comprehension. Therefore, we describe some conflicts and solutions engendered in a survey of domestic workers during the covid-19 pandemic. The research that based this essay stems from the perspective of the social psychology of work and combined ethnographic inspirations with qualitative interviews to analyze the dramatic experiences in the organizational processes of work and survival of these female workers. This shows that the exercise of social research transforms researchers’ objective interpretation by challenging them, establishing approaches and realigning studies with their target audience.
Copyright (c) 2025 Leonardo Araújo Lima http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Interview: the development of Social Psychology of Work in Brazil based on Leny Sato's trajectory
This intervies aims to conduct the memory sork of social psychology of sork through the trajectory of Professor Leny Sato. Se argue that recording the memory of those sho share this perspective alloss for a narrative construction that reveals cracks in the homogeneous, dominant discourse in the historiography of sork-related psychologies. Moreover, this intervies puts into perspective the development of social psychology of sork in Brazil and, at the same time, the psychology-sork relationship in Latin America.
Copyright (c) 2024 Leny Sato, Flávia Manuella Uchôa-de-Oliveira, Juliano Almeida Bastos http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Occupational health in the COVID-19 pandemic: attention to mental health and recognition of professional diseasein the Diadema CEREST
Facing the covid-19 pandemic impacted several workers who were exposed to the new virus, especially frontline care workers. The pandemic demanded excessive workloads from workers, physically and mentally exhausting them. This study aimed to describe the CEREST actions in Diadema/SP in psychosocial care for workers in the first year of the covid-19 pandemic (2020) by welcoming and listening to workers infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. This service experience report changed the team’s work processes to guide workers on recognizing covid-19 as a work-related illness. To this end, telephone contacts were made based on the epidemiological notification of covid-19 about the working conditions and psychosocial aspects of workers affected by the disease. The group primarily consisted of white women, health workers, complete secondary education, who were aged from 30 to 49 years. The epidemiological notification forms lacked work-related information. Workers reported processes of emotional exhaustion due to occupational exposure and the condition of transmitting the disease to family members. covid-19 was recognized as work-related in 70% of cases. We seek to preserve the rights of all workers.
Copyright (c) 2024 Andréia De Conto Garbin, Nancy Yasuda, Arlindo Silveira, Angela Scatena Moreto , Beatriz Sanches Bargo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Mental health and ilness among Judiciary employees in emergency remote work
The challenges faced by public servants and legal organizations in the context of emergency remote work had an impact on health and illness processes. Given this context, this qualitative study explored the understanding of mental health among 1,108 judiciary public servants in southern Brazil during the period of compulsory telework amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected via open-ended responses to an online questionnaire (62.95% were women) and via verbal content gathered during two focus groups with a total of 15 staff members (nine women). The information was subjected to thematic content analysis. Most public servants emphasized positive aspects of mental health during remote work, although in some cases this was in comparison to issues experienced in the in-person work setting. A considerable number of respondents expressed dissatisfaction and reported psychological distress, with high levels of anxiety and stress being particularly notable. It is urgent to identify effective management strategies to eliminate or reduce the rates of distress/illness and to promote the health of judiciary public servants.
Copyright (c) 2026 Maria Eduarda Jaruzo Moraes, Daeana Paula Bourscheid, Renato Tocchetto de Oliveira, Suzana da Rosa Tolfo, Renata Silva de Carvalho Chinelato https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Obstacles and challenges for female Brazilian psychology researchers
Modern science operates on the basis of gender, race, and class inequality, favoring the achievement of scientific excellence for men. This study aims to analyze the challenges and obstacles for female research productivity fellows CNPq in psychology. This quali-quantitative research with a non-probabilistic sample of 85 women from 204 productivity fellows registered at CNPq and respondents to an online questionnaire registered in the SurveyMonkey tool. Among the 85 participants, 24 integrated this qualitative remote interview stage. Results indicated the predominance of white, cis, heterosexual women from the Brazilian Southeast. The main challenges and obstacles are related to a scenario of internal dispute within the various areas of science and technology and the changes in the world of academic work. Productivity fellowships show feelings of satisfaction for the academic recognition and discouragement due to an overload of activities and functions. Scholars face numerous barriers to sustaining scientific excellence related to the organization of academic and domestic work.
The gears of the judiciary: psychosocial factors in the neoliberal fabrication of justice
This study describes some of the results of research with 15 “dissident” magistrates that investigated the psychosocial conditions that reflected in the legal practices of such minority positions. Findings related the perception of this magistrature about how the objective configuration of the Brazilian judicial organization acts to consolidate a subjective hegemonic structure in the jurisdictional production. Overall, two central aspects are emphasized: the “managerial” parameters in the microdevices to regulate legal practices analogous to those that regulate the production of corporations in society and an “institutional perversion” in the judicial organization to conform even initiatives contrary to the hegemonic production, consolidating a neoliberal rationality. Thus, psychosocial influences have power over the judicial production and can transform the magistrature into a political instrument to legitimize injustice.
Copyright (c) 2025 André Guerra, Pedrinho Guareschi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The taxi driver in the world of work: platformization, uberization and transformations in work reality
This article presents elements of the daily lives of Uberlândia/MG taxi drivers and how they understand the transformations in their work reality after the emergence of ride-hailing app companies. It is based on the Social Psychology of Work to weave analyses on the objective and subjective aspects involved in the work process of the focused category. The research was conducted through an exploratory and empirical study, with a qualitative approach, using semi-structured interviews with taxi drivers. Thematic content analysis was used to organize the material constructed in the interviews, according to the objectives defined for the research. The results found are related to: the trajectory to becoming a taxi driver, the daily work, the influence of the emergence of app companies on the work demands and earnings of these workers, regulatory disparities between taxi drivers and Uber drivers, the effects of of the pandemic on work activity, and the forms of coping used by taxi drivers to deal with changes in work in this context.
Copyright (c) 2025 Antonio da Silva Vasco, Maristela de Souza Pereira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Work precarization and mental health of nursing assistants and technicians in a public hospital in Grande Vitória-ES during the covid-19 pandemic
The present study had the objective of analyzing the relationships between work and mental health of nursing assistants and technicians in the context of the covid-19 pandemic. The data were generated through individual interviews and, from the perspective of Work Psychodynamics, analyzed using the Sense Core Analysis technique. Discussions were held regarding workers’ confrontation with the reality of work - characterized by intensified pace, unpredictability, and emotional and cognitive demands - and the potential effects of this experience on the dynamics of subjective processes. It was observed that the precariousness of work contributed to the weakening of healthcare services and to the increase in work-related mental distress. However, the strategies used by workers to deal with this context seem to have contributed to minimizing possible harmful effects on mental health, despite the challenges posed by the health crisis.
Copyright (c) 2024 Juliana Oliveira Silva, Rafael da Silveira Gomes http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Work accidents among Correios e Telégrafos workers and the incidence of mental disorders
The work of the agents of the Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos has enormous public utility. However, there is a lack of studies on the work situations they face and their repercussions for their health. This article analyzes the health hazards faced by these workers, espeically regarding mental health. In addition to a bibliographic review, a documentary research was carried out, based on the analysis of 626 reports of accidents at work related to occurrences registered in Minas Gerais, in 2017, filed by the state’s Sindicato dos Trabalhadores de Correios e Telégrafos. It is concluded that the health problems of workers result, above all, from robberies, falls, collisions with vehicles, dog bites and impacts against objects. Post-traumatic stress disorder stands out as the most frequent health problem experienced by workers and is related to robberies. So, measures to protect their health and safety are urgently to be elaborated.
Copyright (c) 2024 Carlos Eduardo Carrusca Vieira, Julienne Borges Fujii, Karine Ribeiro Brito, Hevelyn Suianny Barros, Ana Luiza Castro e Souza http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Working and living conditions of psychology professionals in Brazil: contradictions of the New Republic
The 2022 Brazilian Psychology census brought a range of data and descriptive analyses on labor market conditions. The objective of this theoretical study was to explore the relationships between the results of these studies and the socioeconomic context. To this end, a brief narrative review was carried out on production in the field of critical political economy regarding the New Republic period (1988-2022). Two texts from the latest census of Brazilian psychology were also selected for review, which were more directly related to the theme of the characteristics of the insertion of the profession and working conditions. The discussion sought to explore the relationships between characteristics observed in the recent trajectory of psychology and trends identified in the New Republic. Finally, we consider that, although the profession has expanded, gaining capillarity across the national territory, both regional inequalities and the trend of economic involution are in the wake of the determinants of the profession’s continued impoverishment and loss of social protection. This occurs with specific regional accentuations in terms of informality and unemployment.
Copyright (c) 2025 Victor Cesar Amorim Costa, Isabel Fernandes de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
The process of producing work-related mental exhaustion in information technology: the case of Maria Isabel
The investigations in Brazil about the working and living conditions of workers in information technology (IT) go back to the 1980’s, when a harsh reality was observed, crossed by the abandonment of the profession, stress and family conflicts. Nowadays, the experience of people in the sector shows the intensification of work rhythms, the request for unrestricted availability for the activity, and the volatility of training and work tools. In view of this, this case study aims to contribute to the understanding of the production process of mental exhaustion related to work in IT, analyzing, according to the proposition of the field of Work-Related Mental Health, the levels of determination of this process - the workplace, the company, and the regional/national context - in the work life story of Maria Isabel, a business analyst who reports her process of getting sick. It is possible to see how these levels interact in the sense of aggravating the mental exhaustion of the worker and how the examination of spatial-temporal relations contributes to the explicitness of the mediation operated by work in the experience of individuals, including in the process of health/illness.
Copyright (c) 2024 Dímitre Moita, Cássio Adriano Braz de Aquino http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Journalists victims of violence: a study of circumstances and subjective repercussions
The Covid-19 pandemic, the radicalization of political and ideological polarization, the massive dissemination of fake news, and the growing number of attacks on journalists mark the current conjuncture, which poses a serious threat to democracy and freedom of the press in Brazil. This exploratory-cross-sectional, qualitative-comprehensive study aimed to investigate situations of violence against journalists in the exercise of their profession and the impact of these situations on the mental health and subjectivity of those who experienced them. Data was produced in semi-structured interviews; the psychodynamics of work framework supported the comprehensive analysis. The violence was of several types: mass attacks on social networks, threats and intimidation, ideological and misogynist persecution, doxing, moral harassment, physical abuse, violence from the public or the police in events coverage. The multiple manifestations of violence affected the subjectivity and the mental health of the impacted journalists. The study indicates the importance of thinking of effective ways to support that category given the level of exposure, the conjuncture and the consequences for mental health.
Copyright (c) 2024 Laura Camara Lima, Rafaella Carnevalli Cunha, Bruna da Silva Barbosa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Prevention and inclusion actions related to people with disabilities acquired as a result of accidents at work
Work-related disabilities resulting from accidents extend beyond rehabilitation and reintegration into the workplace. This study explores the workplace inclusion of individuals who have acquired a disability due to a work accident, based on interviews with 23 occupational health and safety professionals. Thematic content analysis was used to examine the findings. The study reveals that accident prevention efforts primarily focus on raising awareness about the importance of adopting so-called safe behaviors. Meanwhile, initiatives to include workers with physical impairments tend to be implemented on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, workplace inclusion is not covered in the training of these professionals, which negatively impacts post-accident measures. These findings underscore the need for organizations to move beyond an individualistic view of workplace accidents and emphasize the importance of integrating the issue of disability inclusion into professional training.
Copyright (c) 2025 Joelma Cristina Santos, Maria Nivalda de Carvalho Freitas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Suffering and illness in precarious work and their relationship with disavowal (Verleugnung)
This work aimed to understand how disavowal (Verleugnung) operates in the process of producing suffering and illness at work, based on the analysis of a precarious work context. This refers to the slaughtering and meat processing industries, a sector widely recognized in scientific literature for the process of labor exploitation and illness of its workers. The method used was qualitative research, with semi-structured interviews carried out with 18 industrial workers. The analyzes were carried out based on Grounded Theory. It is understood that in the work context in which the workers participating in the study were inserted, suffering and illness went through a process of disavowal that involved different people with different roles, such as managers, colleagues, health professionals, the sick workers themselves and their family members, as well as organizations and institutions, taking on a traumatic dimension. It is concluded that disavowal permeates the ways of work and the new modalities of social ties in neoliberal capitalism.
Copyright (c) 2024 Márcia Luíza Pit Dal Magro, Roberta Vial Giacobone http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Reflections on the precariousness of daily housekeepers: an analysis based on the terms of use of work platforms
The precariousness of work increases with digital labour platforms, which give companies bigger control and instability for workers. Among other evaluated service categories, daily housekeepers’ activity comes from domestic labour. Thus, this study aimed to analyze the conditions under which the daily housekeepers who work via digital platforms find themselves to investigate whether they further the precariousness of work. This documentary research and discursive textual analysis analyzed the terms of use of three digital platforms. Results show the transfer of risks to workers, the denial of employment relationships, the precariousness of working conditions, and greater control over daily housekeepers. Thus, despite claiming to offer temporary interferences and providers of greater opportunities for the category, conditions and punishments are imposed on the daily housekeepers that mischaracterize the relationship as autonomous and intermediary, casting doubt on the positive discourse.
Copyright (c) 2025 Bruna Gonçalves de Souza, Angelo Brigato Esther http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Accumulation of unrelated tasks and the emergence of an invasive professional genre
This study addresses the accumulation of tasks in the context of human work activity, based on theoretical operators from the clinic of activity, such as instances of professional practice, style, professional genre, power to act and work well-done. Analysis used empirical material related to narratives of workers participating in research developed in a Division of Postmortem Inspection (SVO), by means of semi-structured interviews and instruction to the double conducted with necropsy technicians. Results showed that the need to perform unrelated tasks made these workers appeal to the professional genre inherent to other jobs and appropriate it, giving rise to an invasive professional genre. Thus, the objective was to establish a dialogue between the accumulation of unrelated tasks and the possible development of a professional genre in terms of an invasive professional genre.
Copyright (c) 2024 Joeder da Silva Messias, Jorge Tarcísio da Rocha Falcão, Eduardo Breno Nascimento Bezerra http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Among us: workshops and income generation as health devices
This experience report addresses the intertwining of public mental health policies and solidarity economy. To map psychosocial aspects that support the promotion of mental health by work an embroidery group was monitored in an income-generating workshop that belongs to the psychosocial care network and the Brazilian Unified Health System. The developed path, based on a cartographic perspective, enabled us to think about psychosocial elements that characterized it as an emancipatory space: dialogic ambience, doing-with, the construction of shared knowledge, self-management and the authorship of the group of workshop participants. Furthermore, given the need for literature in psychology articulating health production and solidarity economy, especially in times of neoliberal strengthening, intervention possibilities are highlighted in a psychology that tensions and resignifies work as a field of ethical, aesthetic, and political subjectivation.
Copyright (c) 2025 Marissol Bueno de Melo, Cristiano Hamann http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Documentary-legislative historical review of social security medical examinations and the role of medical experts in its institutionalization
The descriptive study, based on bibliographic and documentary research, outlines the genesis and institutionalization of Social Security Medical Experts (PMP) in Brazil, highlight its critical content. Content Analysis categorized the thematic cores into historical periods that, based on the dialectical method, allowed us to combine a diachronic and synchronic analysis of the role, place, and social function of PMP. Their legal institutionalization reveals a historically conservative and anti-worker(s) stance that supports the expert action within the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), allowing us to affirm that such a field of power has no intention to solve occupational health issues, for the causality paradigm of health problems is given a priori by the working conditions under an ahistorical and decontextualized view of economic, political, ideological and social relations that influence the link between work and health/disease.
Copyright (c) 2024 Bruno Chapadeiro Ribeiro, Roberto Heloani, Francisco Antonio de Castro Lacaz http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
A metasynthesis of labor changes for taxi drivers in times of uberization
Based on Social Psychology of Work, this study analyzes how Latin American scientific publications refer to labor changes in taxi service given the entry of app drivers into the passenger transport service market, seeking to discuss the differences and labor elements common to these two professional categories. A metasynthesis was conducted in four phases: exploration, refinement, description and analysis. Firstly, data were systematically searched and organized into three main descriptive categories: methodological information, theoretical perspective and main topics found. Analysis went beyond the information found in the selected material, as it did not effectively address the labor changes in taxi service. As such, the authors sought to articulate other works that to somewhat addressed current aspects of taxi service work and reflect on how such aspects may be related to recent labor transformations, namely the phenomenon of uberization. This provided a broader reflective perspective on what it means to work as a taxi driver today, as the changes promoted by new technologies and their use in favor of creating new forms of precarious work also reflect on this professional category, affecting their daily work and subjectivity.
Copyright (c) 2024 Antonio da Silva Vasco, Maristela de Souza Pereira http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Balanced work environment: analysis of live-front activities
This article analyzes real work aspects in the electricity sector, which distance and bring electricians closer to a balanced work environment. Research was conducted with eight live-front electricians from a private electric company who worked in energy distribution processes performing vegetation pruning. Ergonomic Work Analysis (EWA) helped to understand real work, articulated to theoretical contributions from Law about the concept of “balanced work environment”. Analysis identified conditions that can generate physical fatigue and occupational risks, as well as issues related to work organization and cognitive demands which can affect safety and distance operators from a balanced work environment. The aspects of job satisfaction identified favor constituting the identity revealed by the development of the craft and the sense of belonging and work cooperation, situations that bring workers closer to a balanced work environment.
Copyright (c) 2024 Flavia Traldi de Lima, Gustavo Tank Bergström, Sandra Francisca Bezerra Gemma, Marcella Silva Ribeiro Gonçalves, Milton Shoiti Misuta, José Luiz Pereira Brittes, Amanda Lopes Fernandes, Eliezer Silva Franco http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0