O assédio moral e a precarização das relações de trabalho

This study focuses on cases of moral harassment as denounced in labor lawsuits by workers claiming compensation for moral damage, under the jurisdiction of the Regional Labor Court of the State of Bahia (Brazil) from 2001 to 2010, a period in which the number of lawsuits rose from one to 989. A database with quantitative and qualitative information was assembled from the analysis of 3,249 labor lawsuits. We aimed at apprehending the meaning of the humiliations, swearing and ill treatment by taking into account the workers’ and the witnesses’ own speeches, the accounts of which, extracted from the lawsuits, have the potential to show the degree of exploitation endured by the workforce and the extent to which current work relations have been rendered precarious. The study proposal of this thesis, within the field perspective of work sociology, is to view moral assessment as a strategy of domination in a context of ever-increasing precarious work from the social standpoint. In recent times, the exploitation of workers has been intensified by violent management methods, and moral harassment has become the best tool, as a management strategy, to foster a policy towards ever-increasing precarious work relations. Moral harassment, according to the workers’ accounts in the lawsuits, is the coercion mechanism used by the corporations to impose the work place in the current productive context and can be considered as a strategy towards precarious work relations, the management method of which consists of the permanent perpetration of psychologically and morally violent acts. Moral harassment was shown to result not from interpersonal relationships, but from the current capitalist strategies of management and work organization. Moral harassment, as an act of violence that morphs into capital-work relations, is both the old component of coercive methods aimed at organizing the work and the new phenomenon of work management linked to the process of rendering work increasingly precarious. The aim of moral harassment is not merely to persecute and expel the worker from the workplace, but also to control his/her actions effectively in order to assure the achievement of productivity goals. The concept of moral harassment advanced in this thesis views moral assessment as a management strategy to control the worker, whose working conditions nowadays, more than ever before, have been rendered precarious, thereby causing him/her to become defenseless, docile, dominated and without resistance. That is why moral harassment is one of the main ways to render work precarious, being a (new) way for the capital to dominate and exploit the workforce.

Grantor

Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Aguiar, André Luiz Souza

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Faria, Maria da Graça Druck de

• Trabalho
• Assédio moral
• Violência
• Maus-tratos
• Precarização
• Moral harassmen
• Violence
• Ill treatment
• Precarious work

Statement dc:rights

• Acesso Aberto

Language dc:language.iso

pt_BR

Repository record dc:identifier.uri

http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/19001

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositorio.ufba.br:ri/19001