Jussara Maria Rosa Mendes

Serviço Social e a saúde do trabalhador: uma dispersa demanda

O presente artigo tem como objetivo discorrer sobre o Servico Social na area da Saude do Trabalhador, demonstrando como ao longo dos anos a profissao se aproxima dessa dispersa demanda. Apontam-se elementos que historicamente vem norteando o debate sobre o trabalho e a saude, expressando avancos e contradicoes na area da saude do trabalhador. Para o Servico Social, os desafios dessa area do conhecimento vem ampliando a exigencia teorica e metodologica, bem como etica e politica para o enfrentamento das confrontacoes e manifestacoes contemporâneas dessas duas categorias centrais: saude e trabalho.The present article has the objective of discuss about Social Work in the field of Workers Health, showing the way Social Work get closer to this disperse demand. Elements that historically surround the debate concerning work and health are pointed out, expressing the advances and contradictions within the field of worker´s health. For Social Work, the challenges in this field of knowledge increase the theoretical and practical requirements for facing these confrontations and manifestations of these two central categories: health and work.

As recentes tendências da pesquisa em Serviço Social

This article analyzes the current trends of the research in Social Work in the context of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPd - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). From the data collected by the Social Work representatives in the Advisory Committee, it is noted the unquestionable relation among research, production of knowledge and post-graduation; the link between research and the several demands historically determined by the capitalistic society; and the new CNPq trends showing relevance to Social Work: the training and popularization of Science and Technology, as well as intersectoriality.

O Trabalho no Contexto da Reestruturação Produtiva: determinações históricas e a relação com a saúde / The Work in The Context of Productive Restructuring: historical determinations and the relationship to health

O artigo efetua a analise do trabalho em suas dimensoes universais e suas transformacoes no âmbito do modo de producao capitalista e aborda as sua implicacoes na saude dos trabalhadores. Destaca, assim, a relacao do trabalho com o processo de saude-doenca. Focaliza a abordagem na reestruturacao produtiva advinda do enfrentamento a crise de acumulacao do inicio dos anos 1970. Nessa analise, aponta as alteracoes tecnologicas nas formas de gestao e organizacao do trabalho e as relacoes de terceirizacao, a partir do que se estabelece a relacao do trabalho com o processo de saude-doenca e os mecanismos de ocultamento desse processo, na logica do capital.

Desenvolvimento, saúde e meio ambiente: contradições na construção de hidrelétricas

The current context of the construction of dams in Brazil shows several controversies, mainly lined up with the existing contradiction between the official speech focused on the benefits resulting from such enterprises and the important, serious and irreversible socio environmental impacts caused by the construction of dams, which are attested by the experience of those people who pass through such transformations. In this sense, the present article proposes to analyze and discuss the interfaces between economic development, environment and health in the context of the construction of dams in Brazil.

Da violência contra si: a autodestruição por meio do suicídio no meio rural no Rio Grande do Sul/Brasil

Este texto trata da questao do suicidio no Rio Grande do Sul/Brasil, considerando o contexto do avanco do capitalismo no campo. Este avanco tem propiciado novos modos e estilos de vida que, por seu turno, tem favorecido a algumas sociopatologias, dentre estas, a autodestruicao por meio do suicidio. Das violencias a que estamos expostos todos os dias, a violencia contra si e uma das mais graves, vez que denuncia a sociedade deleteria em que se vive, assim como seus pontos de desagregacao. Neste sentido, aponta a investida do capital para que se consolide o fim da pequena agricultura tradicional, seja por meio da articulacao com a industria e seus metodos perversos de gestao, seja por meio da pluriatividade, expressao contemporânea da flexibilizacao e, ademais, da precarizacao do trabalho no meio rural. This paper deals with the issue of suicide in Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil, considering the advance of capitalism in rural areas. This kind of progress has brought new lifestyles that, in turn, has favored some social pathologies and, among these, the self-destruction through suicide. Among violences that we are exposed every day, the violence against ourselves is one of the most serious, since it reveals the deleterious society in which we live, as well as their point of breakdown. In this regard, the capital has invested to consolidate the end of the family farming, either through cooperation with the industry and its perverse management methods and through pluriactivity, contemporary expression of flexibility and, moreover, of precariousness of work in rural areas.

Death over time: brief notes about death and dying in the West

This literature review deals with death and the changes in its concept and meanings over time, aiming to relate this to the different social organizations and issues that involve individuality and human finitude. It intends to arouse the reflection about this theme respected by all of us, and related to our own contingency. In this sense, the article provides several perspectives through different authors voices, seeking to understand how we arrived at this contemporary stage where death must be forgotten at any cost. It is a forbidden subject even inevitably being part of our daily lives, and its guardians must increasingly insure the non-participation and non-involvement of the people. Therefore, understanding the past stages of death, from its proximity to its banishment from the social life, is a necessary condition to analyzing our own end, and the end of our own individuality.