A dinâmica do trabalho no estaleiro atlântico Sul S/A: cooperação e resistência

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Ana Aldivonir Delfino
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7916
• topic: Indústria de construção naval e offshore; Shipbuilding and Offshore Industry; Processo de trabalho; Cooperação; Subjetividade; Working Process; Cooperation; Subjectivity; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO

Cooperation refers to the active involvement of workers with the goals of the company. As well, it is a dynamic phenomenon that settles from a complex web of ties or relationships. The literature on the subject suggests that cooperation between employees and employers is based on a combination of economic, political, ideological and psychological elements. The understanding of this phenomenon brings up a discussion about some central themes related to the worker process such as the practices of personnel management, labor relations, mechanisms of control and power relations. Concerning to this research, these themes were used as a support for the analysis of links that make up the cooperation among the working class considered. It also points out the consequences of those themes for the subjectivity of these workers, their resistance strategies and trade union activities. According to the case study technique, this approach focus on the experiences of the workers of a large company, shipbuilding and offshore industry, located in the Suape Complex in Pernambuco. The instruments used for data collection were documentary research, personal and group interviews with workers and trade unionists, respectively. Besides, the material includes informal conversations with an Auditor of the Public Ministry of Labour, responsible for the Port’s labour inspection. The data studies (from the technique of content analysis) and the interpretation of the results demonstrated the absence of people’s management practices able to engage and enhance the worker's capacities, the presence of a management model marked by coercion and authoritarianism, the hostility to trade union action and the threat of resignation as a tool of intimidation. Together, that situation configures the pattern of the involvement. Therefore, it shows the levels of workers' cooperation at the company. Overall, the results of the investigation demonstrate that cooperation is marked by coercive practices as far as the worker's agreement is related to menaces of unemployment. The relationships of explicit domination and exploitation are typical of a managerial culture covered with an extreme accuracy and authoritarianism. It also corresponds to traditional patterns of labor relations in Brazil. However, these traces of domination live together with the critical and resistance potential of the working class. This research allowed the understanding that cooperation is based both on authoritarian pressure imposed by the company as in the forms of adaptation and resistance developed by workers.