Empoderamento do trabalhador no processo de trabalho : uma análise a partir dos trabalhadores estatutários de um município do Vale do Rio Pardo.

Abstract

This article discusses the empowerment of the worker in their working process in a city hall of Rio Pardo Valley. Part of a brief historical about the worker’s health, its laws in Brazil and the relevance of the worker as a workforce that boosts Brazilian economy. It talks about the working process in which the employee is inserted, as broaches ergology: the worker's reflection about its activity. A qualitative research was made, with semistructured interviews of descriptive and interpretative character. The investigation sought data related to the length of service, age, physical and mental suffering and perceptions about power at work. We can see that half of workers report some kind of work-related suffering; however, most part identifies itself with the work in their daily lives and realizes the importance of the activity in their personal life. The research brought to those who were part of it moments of reflection about their insertion in the work process, the structural conditions of it and for the researcher, the possibility of application of worker’s health actions and in the city with greater appreciation of the human being as an active part of intervention on the suffering causes.