The hidden speech of workers: elements for an analysis of Telecommunications work in Rio de Janeiro

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Maria Cristina Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Katálysis (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/katalysis/article/view/82544

This article retrieves data and reflections from the doctoral thesis on the work in telecommunications in Rio de Janeiro since its privatization in 1998. In the research process, one of the richest materials we had contact with were the complaint emails sent to the union by the workers, through which it was possible to build a complex picture of the precarious labor relations in the sector in the 2000s. From the concept of “hidden speech” by Scott (2013), it was possible to analyze how such messages also informed us about the daily resistance actions undertaken by workers. Together with other documents, these data enabled us to critically dialogue with the theses that, since the 1980s/90s, affirm the loss of the centrality of work in social life and the workers' capacity for struggle.