STRATEGIES TO COPE WITH REPETITIVE WORK IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY

Abstract

This is an ongoing doctoral research, which aims to identify the coping strategies used by workers in the textile industry in the face of repetitive work, we carried out a case study, based on the Ergonomics of the Activity and Ergological Approach to Work. With the participation of workers from a textile industry in the interior of Brazil. Observations, document collections, and semi-structured individual interviews were carried out. As strategies, we identified the reduction of the work pace, the use of knowledge related to machines and operations (constituted and invested), ingestion of medications, stretching before and during activities and the choice of the best way to transport materials. Even in the face of standardized procedures, it is clear how workers make use of themselves, through individual and collective constructions, in the search for the preservation and maintenance of health. In the search for the preservation of health, individual and collective actions and constructions stand out, even in the face of strict prescriptions.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.029-043