Entre a dor e a alegria: a invisibilidade do adoecimento dos/as assistentes sociais no Município de Cachoeira-Ba

Abstract

The present study aims to study how, as pre-determined conditions of the work of social worker, affects his health, having as a locus of the research the municipality of Cachoeira-BA. For this, an analysis is started with the history of the profession inserted in the socio-technical division of labor is a working organization in capitalist society. The theoretical basis is, as a matter of priority, influenced by Marxist social service theorists. A category of work has central emphasis, understood as a founding element of human sociability and as an important producer and reproducer of the process of capital accumulation. With the transformations of the world of labor, capital metamorphoses to preserve as its structures of domination and exploitation of labor, stirring up as contradictions in class society and bringing drastic and severe consequences to a class that lives from work. The precariousness of work and the dismantling of the rights historically conquered by the working class are a striking expression, and one that worsens in the contemporary transformations of the world of work. As a consequence of the precariousness, there is no work to construct new contours in the way of life of the workers, and with that it restructures a new profile of society in Brazil. Thus, the importance of the discussion about the precariousness of the work of the social workers is emphasized, because a literature on this reality is scarce. Finally, conclusions that the social worker faces a complex reality and with several negative impacts, highlighting the illness, in his professional and personal life, caused by precariousness, increasingly present in his laboratory realities.