Abstract

SATO, Leny. Work: to suffer? To construct oneself? To resist?. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2009, vol.15, n.3, pp. 189-199. ISSN 1677-1168.

This article presents brief considerations on work and its associations with suffering and with the construction of subjectivity, followed by an account of events in which male and female workers express their resistance. Our study was based on situations observed in the daily work on the factory floor of a food industry in the city of São Paulo. Our knowledge of the work routine derives from an ethnographical research carried on for 8 months. Daily organization processes are understood from a micropolitical angle. Evidence that the workers try to avoid suffering through resistance is our starting point. We describe two situations in which counter-powers are developed with astuteness, recurring to management discourse and to opportunities presented by the circumstances.

Keywords : social psychology of work; micropolitics; work; workers.

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