Um fazer sensível no campo do trabalho: caminhos possíveis de uma pesquisa localizada

Abstract

In the Capitalist society, we are what we produce. That is to say, we are that which we work with. Flexible Capitalism emerges with the promise of self-fulfillment and room for authenticity, while presenting new behavioral skills which make up an expected model of being in our fields of work. This scenario intensifies expectations about workers and produces a paradoxical movement: if, on the one hand, there are social contributions from work, on the other, there are impositions on how to perform. These contradictory feelings might end up causing suffering and illness. In dialogue with authors such as Dejours (2007;2017) and Byung-Chul Han (2017), among others, this thesis starts from this paradox, seeking to discuss its impacts on workers' suffering and ways of being. The starting point of this research lies in the concerns, found both in my own history as a worker, as well as in my performance as a professional in the Human Resources area, which stem from listening to workers' stories in their fields. The methodological approach adopted in this research is based on the science of the feminine defended by Isabelle Stengers (1989) and other authors, on Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory (2012) and on PesquisarCOM by Márcia Moraes (2010). This work was developed as a process of creation with and among the actors found in the research field, considering a localized knowledge, which abandons the search for neutrality and allows for hesitation and the impact the research field itself produces on the researcher. The field actors are followed through their narratives about their work experiences, which are then woven into a tailor-made research (QUADROS, 2015), recognizing listening as the practice of a “sensitive doing” that inhabits tensions and is committed to the different ways of feeling and existing in the field of work.