Work and suffering: the endangerment of positions at the public university

• Autor(a) principal: Sarmento, Thais Ferrugem
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Mendes, Jussara Maria Rosa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educação
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/faced/article/view/26209
• topic: Health. Work. Public university. Endangered positions. Suffering; Salud. Trabajo. Universidad pública. Extinción de cargos. Sufrimiento.; Saúde. Trabalho. Universidade pública. Extinção de cargos. Sofrimento.

This article analyzes the effects of structural changes in public federal universities and their impact on the health and work of public servants holding endangered positions at a federal university in Southern Brazil. As a means to undertake this analysis, emphasis was laid on the qualitative approach, on the review of the state of the art on the subject, and on conducting semi-structured interviews with nine of the aforementioned servants, as well as with one union representative and the university’s management. The results highlight that the professional careers of these servants are marked by suffering, discrimination and lack of alternatives for labor market insertion. The strategies they use to cope with the difficulties in their daily work at the university have merely palliative effects and are not capable of modifying the reality in which they find themselves. Therefore, they become hostages and are invisible, which contributes to further suffering and diseases at work.