Abstract

SICOLI, Juliana Lordello. Decisions residues and their repercussions on workers health in a recycling cooperative. Cad. psicol. soc. trab. [online]. 2014, vol.17, n.1, pp. 1-16. ISSN 1516-3717.

The article discusses the intensive work of the pre-recycling process at the present period of extension of the unregulated, decreased and precarious work occupations, conditioned by the imperative character of survival. The discussion is based on the ethnographic study of Coopermape - Cooperativa de Reciclagem de Matéria-Prima de Embu [Recycling Cooperative of Comodities of Embu], field of the dissertation of Juliana Sícoli, oriented by Leny Sato in 2007, and argues if the cooperative can plan the work process also taking into account the workers interests and needs. In despite of the exogenous conformation of the work process, the empiric experience showed that there is a remaining, but important, border of decision in the daily work process by the workers. The experiences of changing conformation at some work stages and provident attitudes demonstrated that it is possible in some situations to consider the process agility and the reduction of the workload and of the workers weariness. At the end, the article emphasizes the recent achievements, especially the establishment of the National Policy on Solid Waste, questioning its potential to extend the advances observed on the survey.

Keywords : Self-management; Workers health; Recycling; Work organization.

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