The aluminum industry in Brazilian Amazon comes from, among many factors, the State’s
strategies, specially from militaries governments, to improve the development in this region.
The mineral- metallurgic projects that have taken place in the north of the country were based
on the modernization ideas for economic development for one region identified on the
developmentistic discourse as “poor and historically forgotten”. Along more than twenty-five
years, the aluminum industry in the state of Pará faced many changes, between these changes
we distinguish the process of productive restructuration of work, that, by one side brought
technological development and increase on the production, but on the other side, made
decrease the opportunities of work, intensifying the “tercerization” in this area, making
change the conditions and the relations of work. Based on denunciations connected with
healthy problems with workers in aluminum industries in the region, made from ONG’s and
workers’ associations, this study asks: how is developed the security- healthy of the workers
on the productive restructuration on the aluminum production in the state of Pará and which
impacts it has on subjectivity of the workers. Based on the theorical discussion of the
Psychodynamics of work, the present study developed an qualitative research and interviewed
44 workers, their parents, worker’s delegates, technologists and administrations of one
industry that produce primary aluminum. We realized also the documental analysis of many
texts as: medical reports, worker’s CAT’s, as so many documents elaborated by this industry
that gave elements to produce the stage of this research. To elaborate the analysis of the data
research we utilize the qualitative analysis in studies about healthy by Minayo (2004), based
on Dialectics-Hermeneutics. We observed the suffering of the workers with diseases or victim
of accidents that lead us to interrupted lives, to abandoned and useless feelings, associated to
organization of work and to the way how the administration of security and worker’s healthy
are organized. In the process of productive restructuration of work, the Occupational Health
paradigm to think about the relationship between health-disease and work, keeping the
concept of “insecure act”, adds to blame the worker for his own accident or disease,
incorporating to the discourse of the administration for the quality when they increase the
value of the worker’s implications and engagement, emphasizing the individualistic and
utilitarian perspective how is faced the workmanship in the time of flexible work. Seeking this
point of view, worker’s security and healthy depends on the consciousness and the
engagement of the worker with this subject, excluding the possibilities of analysis that
consider the connection between the conditions and the organization of work and the risks of
accidents so as the development of diseases by the workers. The suffering caused by the
relation of the worker with the organization of work which make him to develop diseases is
denied by the enterprises, by the healthy professionals and by the State and it is showed by the
defense mechanisms utilized by the workers. Following the Workplace Psychodynamics
analysis, to listen the workers, recognizing their suffering, can be the first step in the
construction of changes in the field of work, capable to improve the search for healthy. The
present study has the proposition to help to construct this way.
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