Trabalho e adoecimento mental dos servidores públicos: facetas da precarização em uma Instituição Federal de Ensino Superior

Abstract

This dissertation is part of the Post-Graduate Program in Social Service of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). It approaches the relationship between work and mental illness. Its target audience is public workers from a Federal Institution of Higher Education (FIHE), who were on Health Care Leave and On-the-job Accident Leave in 2018. The research problem is: What is the relationship between work and mental illness in the context of an FIHE located in the State of Rio Grande do Sul? The general objective of this study is to unveil the relationship between work and mental illness with public workers of an FIHE, in order to give visibility to the issue and provide subsidies for teams that develop the Health Care and Workplace Safety Policy for Public workers from the Federal Government, to improve their worker care strategies. A mixed focus study with a qualitative emphasis was developed, based on the historical materialistic dialectical method. It uses triangulation as a research technique, which encompasses the context, documentary research and field research. For data analysis, content analysis and statistical analysis techniques were used. The results obtained, demonstrate that the reality of public workers is crossed by processes of social and work precariousness, as occurs with all Brazilian wage earners and the processes of illness experienced by them are related to alienated work, but also express manifestations of rebellion and resistance to the contradiction between capital and labor. It seems evident that SIASS represents an important achievement, but it has been facing a progressive process of inattention and dismantling, in addition there is a need to overcome the centrality attributed to expertise and absenteeism, providing better attention to health promotion. Regarding the relationship between work and mental illness, it was concluded that work is marked by competitiveness, precariousness and the lack of recognition of public workers, which characterize neoliberalism and amplify the corrosion of subjectivity and the incidence of mental illness, which it is aggravated by its invisibility and by discrimination processes. It is also noteworthy, based on documentar and field research, that the assessment of the causal nexus currently carried out is insufficient and needs to be expanded, for this it is essential that new researches discuss the issue.