Resistances at Work as Health Strategies

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This essay aims to conceptualize and characterize the phenomenon of resistance at work, identifying its hidden strategies, manifested by the worker as part of health. We started from a psychosociological approach and develop a reflective analysis in three parts: firstly, we made conceptual considerations, propose a conceptual model listing attributes necessary for resistance at work; secondly, we discussed the hidden resistances and their daily manifestations in work situations, identifying and describing them; lastly, we announced resistance as part and expression of health, aimed at its maintenance, prevention and promotion. We consider the phenomenon to be convergent with the health and life maintenance social praxis, since the immanent powers of the resistance processes in everyday life are alternatives of freedom and possible strategies constituting positive indicators of the health of workers and work.

Keywords: Resistance; Psychosociology; Work; Health-Disease Process; Strategy.

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Murilo da Silva Alves, State University of Santa Cruz

PhD student in Social Psychology at the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Master in Nursing and Health from the University of Southwest Bahia. Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the State University of Santa Cruz (DCS/UESC). Member of the Laboratory of Studies on Work, Sociability and Health (LETSS/UFMG). 

Livia de Oliveira Borges, Federal University of Minas Gerais

PhD in Psychology from the University of Brasilia, with post-doctoral internship at the Complutense University of Madrid. Master in Business Administration from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Retired professor working as a volunteer in the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Member of the Laboratory of Studies on Work, Sociability and Health (LETSS/UFMG). CNPq research productivity scholarship.

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2023-10-18 — Updated on 2023-11-08

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Vol. 23 No. 57 (2023): Edição regular

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