Cadernos de Psicologia Social do Trabalho
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description: 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 This journal welcomes articles based on diverse theoretical readings, original and unpublished, in the following formats: research, intervention and experience reports, as well as theoretical essays.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
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Psicologia
language: en
publication name: Cadernos de Psicologia Social do Trabalho
issn: 1516-3717
items: Subjectivity and higher education teaching: living and working in the channels of the Amazon rivers
items: Camgirls: sex work and platformization from the perspective of the Social Psychology of Work
items: A tribute to Ivar Oddone and his team
items: Worker–Animal bond: psychological effects of violence against animals in slaughterhouses
items: "Work environment" and "Worker experience": theoretical tools for atypical and transformative collaboration between workers and health specialists
items: The work of caring in the pandemic: intersections between gender and mental health in hospitals
items: Book review of "Experiência operária, consciência de classe e psicologia do trabalho" by Ivar Oddone, Alessandra Re, and Gianni Briante
items: Rediscovering the workers' experience: heritage projects for the Ergological Approach to Work
items: The heritage of "Experiência operária, consciência de classe e psicologia do trabalho" and ergonomics
items: The labors of social research: approaches to the dramas experienced by domestic workers
items: Interview: the development of Social Psychology of Work in Brazil based on Leny Sato's trajectory
items: Occupational health in the COVID-19 pandemic: attention to mental health and recognition of professional diseasein the Diadema CEREST
items: Mental health and ilness among Judiciary employees in emergency remote work
items: Obstacles and challenges for female Brazilian psychology researchers
items: The gears of the judiciary: psychosocial factors in the neoliberal fabrication of justice
items: The taxi driver in the world of work: platformization, uberization and transformations in work reality
items: Work precarization and mental health of nursing assistants and technicians in a public hospital in Grande Vitória-ES during the covid-19 pandemic
items: Work accidents among Correios e Telégrafos workers and the incidence of mental disorders
items: Working and living conditions of psychology professionals in Brazil: contradictions of the New Republic
items: The process of producing work-related mental exhaustion in information technology: the case of Maria Isabel
items: Journalists victims of violence: a study of circumstances and subjective repercussions
items: Prevention and inclusion actions related to people with disabilities acquired as a result of accidents at work
items: Suffering and illness in precarious work and their relationship with disavowal (Verleugnung)
items: Reflections on the precariousness of daily housekeepers: an analysis based on the terms of use of work platforms
items: Accumulation of unrelated tasks and the emergence of an invasive professional genre
items: Among us: workshops and income generation as health devices
items: Documentary-legislative historical review of social security medical examinations and the role of medical experts in its institutionalization
items: A metasynthesis of labor changes for taxi drivers in times of uberization
items: Balanced work environment: analysis of live-front activities
items: The clinic of work at the university: experiences, challenges and possibilities

Subjectivity and higher education teaching: living and working in the channels of the Amazon rivers
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
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subject: Teaching
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subject: Subjectivity
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subject: Amazon
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creator: Thiago Rodrigues Cavalcante
creator: Socorro de Fátima Moraes Nina
creator: Rosângela Dutra de Moraes
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Thiago Rodrigues Cavalcante, Socorro de Fátima Moraes Nina, Rosângela Dutra de Moraes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-12
publication date: 2026-04-12
ending page: 219252
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2026.219252

Camgirls: sex work and platformization from the perspective of the Social Psychology of Work
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
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subject: Camgirls
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subject: Sex work
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subject: Social psychology of work
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subject: Uberization of work
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creator: Marta de Castro A. Bichir
creator: Cris Fernández Andrada
creator: Marcelo Camargo Batistuzzo
rights: Copyright (c) 2026 Marta de Castro A. Bichir, Cris Fernández Andrada, Marcelo Camargo Batistuzzo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-12
publication date: 2026-04-12
ending page: 223850
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2026.223850

A tribute to Ivar Oddone and his team
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description: 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.
subject: Tributo a Ivar Oddone e equipe
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subject: Oddone
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subject: Psychology of work
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creator: Fábio de Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Fábio de Oliveira http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-23
publication date: 2024-12-23
ending page: 232508
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.232508

Worker–Animal bond: psychological effects of violence against animals in slaughterhouses
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
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subject: Worker’s health
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subject: Slaughter
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subject: Human-animal relationship
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creator: Luigia Salerno
creator: Andreia de Conto Garbin
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Luigia Salerno, Andreia de Conto Garbin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2026-04-12
publication date: 2026-04-12
ending page: 223138
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2025.223138

"Work environment" and "Worker experience": theoretical tools for atypical and transformative collaboration between workers and health specialists
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description: 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.
subject: Tributo a Ivar Oddone e equipe
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subject: Oddone
  topic: keywords
subject: Worker's model
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subject: Psychology of work
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creator: Alessandra Re
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Alessandra Re http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-23
publication date: 2024-12-23
ending page: 229282
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.229282

The work of caring in the pandemic: intersections between gender and mental health in hospitals
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Healthcare workers
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subject: Mental health
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subject: Gender relations
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subject: covid-19
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creator: Natacha Cibele Mattos
creator: Tonantzin Ribeiro Gonçalves
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Natacha Cibele Mattos, Tonantzin Ribeiro Gonçalves https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-11-16
publication date: 2025-11-16
ending page: 217404
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2025.217404

Book review of "Experiência operária, consciência de classe e psicologia do trabalho" by Ivar Oddone, Alessandra Re, and Gianni Briante
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description: 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?
subject: Tributo a Ivar Oddone e equipe
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subject: Oddone
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subject: Psychology of work
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subject: Worker's model
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creator: Maria Elizabeth Antunes Lima
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Maria Elizabeth Antunes Lima http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-23
publication date: 2024-12-23
ending page: 228323
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.228323

Rediscovering the workers' experience: heritage projects for the Ergological Approach to Work
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description: 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.
subject: Tributo a Ivar Oddone e equipe
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subject: Ergological approach to work
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subject: Experience
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subject: Labor
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subject: Italian workers’ movement
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creator: Daisy Moreira Cunha
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Daisy Moreira Cunha http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-23
publication date: 2024-12-23
ending page: 228164
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.228164

The heritage of "Experiência operária, consciência de classe e psicologia do trabalho" and ergonomics
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description: 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.
subject: Tributo a Ivar Oddone e equipe
  topic: section
subject: Oddone
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subject: Experience
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subject: Ergonomics
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subject: Work
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subject: Worker's model
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creator: Francisco de Paula Antunes Lima
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Francisco de Paula Antunes Lima http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-23
publication date: 2024-12-23
ending page: 228154
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.228154

The labors of social research: approaches to the dramas experienced by domestic workers
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Social research
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subject: Domestic workers
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subject: Social psychology of work
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creator: Leonardo Araújo Lima
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Leonardo Araújo Lima http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-06-03
publication date: 2025-06-03
ending page: 210409
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2025.210409

Interview: the development of Social Psychology of Work in Brazil based on Leny Sato's trajectory
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description: 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.
subject: Interview
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subject: Social psychology of work
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subject: Social psychology
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subject: Labor
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subject: Health
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subject: Brazil
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creator: Leny Sato
creator: Flávia Manuella Uchôa-de-Oliveira
creator: Juliano Almeida Bastos
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Leny Sato, Flávia Manuella Uchôa-de-Oliveira, Juliano Almeida Bastos http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-12-04
publication date: 2024-12-04
ending page: 224034
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.224034

Occupational health in the COVID-19 pandemic: attention to mental health and recognition of professional diseasein the Diadema CEREST
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Occupational health
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subject: Mental health
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subject: Coronavirus infections
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subject: Health personnel
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subject: Cost of illness
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creator: Andréia De Conto Garbin
creator: Nancy Yasuda
creator: Arlindo Silveira
creator: Angela Scatena Moreto
creator: Beatriz Sanches Bargo
rights: 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
date: 2025-05-28
publication date: 2025-05-28
ending page: 208952
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.208952

Mental health and ilness among Judiciary employees in emergency remote work
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Mental health
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subject: Remote work
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subject: Mental disorders
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creator: Maria Eduarda Jaruzo Moraes
creator: Daeana Paula Bourscheid
creator: Renato Tocchetto de Oliveira
creator: Suzana da Rosa Tolfo
creator: Renata Silva de Carvalho Chinelato
rights: 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
date: 2026-04-12
publication date: 2026-04-12
ending page: 223679
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2026.223679

Obstacles and challenges for female Brazilian psychology researchers
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Scientific excellence
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subject: Gender
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subject: Humanities
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subject: Psychology
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creator: Rocelly Cunha
creator: Magda Dimenstein
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-05-28
publication date: 2025-05-28
ending page: 212776
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2025.212776

The gears of the judiciary: psychosocial factors in the neoliberal fabrication of justice
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Magistrature
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subject: Judice power
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subject: Neoliberalism
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subject: Organizations
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subject: Dissent and disputes
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creator: André Guerra
creator: Pedrinho Guareschi
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 André Guerra, Pedrinho Guareschi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-05-28
publication date: 2025-05-28
ending page: 211690
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2025.211690

The taxi driver in the world of work: platformization, uberization and transformations in work reality
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Taxi
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subject: Taxi drivers
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subject: Uberization
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subject: Platformization
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subject: Social psychology of work
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creator: Antonio da Silva Vasco
creator: Maristela de Souza Pereira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Antonio da Silva Vasco, Maristela de Souza Pereira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-11-16
publication date: 2025-11-16
ending page: 223059
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2025.223059

Work precarization and mental health of nursing assistants and technicians in a public hospital in Grande Vitória-ES during the covid-19 pandemic
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Nursing
  topic: keywords
subject: Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Mental health
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creator: Juliana Oliveira Silva
creator: Rafael da Silveira Gomes
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Juliana Oliveira Silva, Rafael da Silveira Gomes http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-01-20
publication date: 2025-01-20
ending page: 212317
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.212317

Work accidents among Correios e Telégrafos workers and the incidence of mental disorders
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Postal services
  topic: keywords
subject: Violence at work
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subject: Posttraumatic stress disorder
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subject: Worker’s health
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subject: Notification of work accidents
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creator: Carlos Eduardo Carrusca Vieira
creator: Julienne Borges Fujii
creator: Karine Ribeiro Brito
creator: Hevelyn Suianny Barros
creator: Ana Luiza Castro e Souza
rights: 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
date: 2025-01-20
publication date: 2025-01-20
ending page: 210595
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.210595

Working and living conditions of psychology professionals in Brazil: contradictions of the New Republic
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Psychology
  topic: keywords
subject: Precarious work
  topic: keywords
subject: Impoverishment
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subject: New republic
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subject: Regional inequality
  topic: keywords
subject: Economic involution
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creator: Victor Cesar Amorim Costa
creator: Isabel Fernandes de Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Victor Cesar Amorim Costa, Isabel Fernandes de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-11-16
publication date: 2025-11-16
ending page: 222584
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2025.222584

The process of producing work-related mental exhaustion in information technology: the case of Maria Isabel
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Mental exhaustion
  topic: keywords
subject: IT workers
  topic: keywords
subject: Case study
  topic: keywords
subject: Work-related mental health
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creator: Dímitre Moita
creator: Cássio Adriano Braz de Aquino
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Dímitre Moita, Cássio Adriano Braz de Aquino http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-09-27
publication date: 2024-09-27
ending page: 209882
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.209882

Journalists victims of violence: a study of circumstances and subjective repercussions
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Journalists
  topic: keywords
subject: Violence
  topic: keywords
subject: Mental health
  topic: keywords
subject: Moral harassment
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creator: Laura Camara Lima
creator: Rafaella Carnevalli Cunha
creator: Bruna da Silva Barbosa
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Laura Camara Lima, Rafaella Carnevalli Cunha, Bruna da Silva Barbosa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-09-27
publication date: 2024-09-27
ending page: 209046
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.209046

Prevention and inclusion actions related to people with disabilities acquired as a result of accidents at work
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: People with disabilities
  topic: keywords
subject: Accidents at work
  topic: keywords
subject: Inclusion at work
  topic: keywords
subject: Vocational training
  topic: keywords
subject: Acquired disability
  topic: keywords
subject: Rehabilitation
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creator: Joelma Cristina Santos
creator: Maria Nivalda de Carvalho Freitas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Joelma Cristina Santos, Maria Nivalda de Carvalho Freitas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-11-16
publication date: 2025-11-16
ending page: 222032
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2025.222032

Suffering and illness in precarious work and their relationship with disavowal (Verleugnung)
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Trauma
  topic: keywords
subject: Precariousness of work
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subject: Worker’s health
  topic: keywords
subject: Disavowal
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creator: Márcia Luíza Pit Dal Magro
creator: Roberta Vial Giacobone
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Márcia Luíza Pit Dal Magro, Roberta Vial Giacobone http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-01-20
publication date: 2025-01-20
ending page: 197642
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.197642

Reflections on the precariousness of daily housekeepers: an analysis based on the terms of use of work platforms
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Digital labour platforms
  topic: keywords
subject: Daily housekeepers
  topic: keywords
subject: Precariousness
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creator: Bruna Gonçalves de Souza
creator: Angelo Brigato Esther
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Bruna Gonçalves de Souza, Angelo Brigato Esther http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-05-28
publication date: 2025-05-28
ending page: 207014
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2025.207014

Accumulation of unrelated tasks and the emergence of an invasive professional genre
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Accumulation of tasks
  topic: keywords
subject: Necropsy technician
  topic: keywords
subject: Clinic of activity
  topic: keywords
subject: Professional genre
  topic: keywords
subject: Invasive professional genre
  topic: keywords
creator: Joeder da Silva Messias
creator: Jorge Tarcísio da Rocha Falcão
creator: Eduardo Breno Nascimento Bezerra
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Joeder da Silva Messias, Jorge Tarcísio da Rocha Falcão, Eduardo Breno Nascimento Bezerra http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18
starting page: e206020
ending page: e206020
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.206020

Among us: workshops and income generation as health devices
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Mental health
  topic: keywords
subject: Work workshop
  topic: keywords
subject: Solidarity economy
  topic: keywords
creator: Marissol Bueno de Melo
creator: Cristiano Hamann
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marissol Bueno de Melo, Cristiano Hamann http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-05-28
publication date: 2025-05-28
ending page: 219188
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2025.219188

Documentary-legislative historical review of social security medical examinations and the role of medical experts in its institutionalization
type: item
description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Occupational health
  topic: keywords
subject: Expert testimony
  topic: keywords
subject: Social security
  topic: keywords
subject: Forensic medicine
  topic: keywords
subject: Ergonomics
  topic: keywords
creator: Bruno Chapadeiro Ribeiro
creator: Roberto Heloani
creator: Francisco Antonio de Castro Lacaz
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Bruno Chapadeiro Ribeiro, Roberto Heloani, Francisco Antonio de Castro Lacaz http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18
starting page: e200525
ending page: e200525
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.200525

A metasynthesis of labor changes for taxi drivers in times of uberization
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Taxi drivers
  topic: keywords
subject: Uberization
  topic: keywords
subject: Precarious work
  topic: keywords
subject: Metasynthesis
  topic: keywords
creator: Antonio da Silva Vasco
creator: Maristela de Souza Pereira
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Antonio da Silva Vasco, Maristela de Souza Pereira http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18
starting page: e200695
ending page: e200695
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.200695

Balanced work environment: analysis of live-front activities
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description: 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.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Work environment
  topic: keywords
subject: Energy sector
  topic: keywords
subject: Electricians
  topic: keywords
subject: Live-front
  topic: keywords
creator: Flavia Traldi de Lima
creator: Gustavo Tank Bergström
creator: Sandra Francisca Bezerra Gemma
creator: Marcella Silva Ribeiro Gonçalves
creator: Milton Shoiti Misuta
creator: José Luiz Pereira Brittes
creator: Amanda Lopes Fernandes
creator: Eliezer Silva Franco
rights: 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
date: 2024-06-18
publication date: 2024-06-18
starting page: e206661
ending page: e206661
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.206661

The clinic of work at the university: experiences, challenges and possibilities
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description: This study describes the work clinical experiences university researchers carried out in different contexts, conducting action-research inspired by the psychodynamic clinic of work and its possibilities and challenges faced in practice. It aimed to understand the different ways of carrying out clinical work, which uses psychodynamic devices, and the adaptations in university research laboratories in Brazil. The proposal of the discourse space at the university aims to create a culture of awareness of suffering, offering care for workers and, based on this, thinking about practices beyond institutional walls, i.e., in communities. Within the university, a clinic of work, developed with a collective of students, graduates, and researchers, fosters a space for expression; dialogue; and freedom to think, feel, and act collaboratively so collective actions can enhance subjective mobilization.
subject: Original Articles
  topic: section
subject: Work
  topic: keywords
subject: Psychodynamics
  topic: keywords
subject: Work clinic
  topic: keywords
creator: Beatriz Amália Albarello
creator: Lêda Gonçalves de Freitas
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Beatriz Amália Albarello, Lêda Gonçalves de Freitas http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
date: 2025-01-20
publication date: 2025-01-20
ending page: 200159
doi: 10.11606/issn.1981-0490.cpst.2024.200159