Overexploitation of the workforce and workers’ health: precarious work in clothing making

This study aimed to analyze the expressions of the overexploitation of the workforce and its impact on the health of workers from fac ções in two municipalities in the local production arrangement of the Agreste in Pernambuco state, Brazil. The research was guided by a perspective that considers the totality and historicity of social relations and their articulation with particular social processes. Questionnaires and semi-struc tured interviews were applied to confection workers in the municipalities of Toritama and Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, in 2017. The results were analyzed based on the dialectic method. The overexploitation of the workforce was expressed in labor relations through the articulation of the workforce's rem uneration below its value, the increase in the historical moral value of the workforce without its corresponding payment, the extension of working hours and the intensification of the work carried out in the facções. Such characteristics tend to violate the consumption and life fund of workers, wh o may present an early strain on their workforce, which can be evidenced by illness and / or early loss of ability to work.
Source: Physis: Revista de Saude Coletiva - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research