O trabalho domiciliar e seus impactos na saúde do trabalhador: uma aproximação à realidade dos trabalhadores têxteis em Juiz de Fora

Abstract

This work makes a preliminary analysis of the relationship between work and health, specifically, work at home in the garment sector and its impacts on the health of workers who develop this activity in the municipality of Juiz de Fora. This type of work, existing since the dawn of capitalism suffers reconfigurations with the development of capitalist society. With the restructuring process, such activity has been expanding through the processes of outsourcing and subcontracting, subjecting workers to poor conditions. Home-based work activity performed at home while the worker is a source of income for many families Juiz de Fora. Given this context, the Department of Occupational Health of Juiz de Fora (DSAT / JF) held in 2007, a pilot study entitled "Mapping of household economic activities carried out in the coverage area of the Family Health Strategy: integration and intersectoral actions in Occupational Health ", Unit of Primary Health Care (UAP) located in the Garden of the Moon Park Burnier, in order to identify these workers and accompany them. Another research project which identified home workers was "Industry, Labor and textile worker in Juiz de Fora" which is being conducted by the research group Public Policy, Employment and Labour Market in Juiz de Fora, the School of Social Work Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). To support this reflection were made literature searches, updating data and theoretical and analytical studies. Furthermore, the methodology was based on interviews with homeworkers identified in the above studies (total of twelve people), which sought to seize the process of working at home, the relationship between work and health and its consequences within worker