O trabalho “Invisível” dos catadores de materiais recicláveis de Cachoeira - BA

Abstract

This work aims to study the living conditions of recyclable material collectors in Cachoeira, Recôncavo da Bahia. The initial analysis revolves around the issue of environmental degradation as a result of man's action in the quest to meet the imperative of production and consumption of capitalist society, reflecting on the exaggerated production of waste. During the development of the research, several questions were revealed, such as: the lack of opportunity for waste pickers to sell their workforce in the market, with which subjects such as job insecurity, working hours, social inequality, work discrimination, daily difficulties are reported. etc. All of these factors together result in people without employment and without any guarantee of labor rights and without union to fight for their rights. The methodology to support this work is analysis of bibliographies pertinent to the theme, 05 semi-structured qualitative interviews with scavengers from Cachoeira. With this we were able to list elements that reveal the daily work of recyclable material collectors performing their activity in precarious conditions, exposed to work accidents, individually, in addition to the social and institutional invisibility to which these workers are subjected which implies a job degrading. Thus, we sought to develop a work in which the activity of waste pickers plays a plural role in society, in which they put their lives at stake in search of survival, they carry out fundamental work with little or no social appreciation.