Singularidade na atividade de trabalho e da relação com o saber: desafios para a educação do trabalhador

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze and understand the singularity of worker in labor situations, when in work activity. Data collection was performed in an automotive industry, located in Porto Alegre, with workers who currently occupy the position of production assembler. The theoretical reference was supported by two pillars. The ergological perspective, by Yves Schwartz, took a significant representation in this research, because it has a philosophical view on the work activity, considering the singularity, values, choices and knowledge of the worker in activity. The second incorporated perspective was anthropological, by Bernard Charlot, when studying the relation the subject establishes with his knowledge. From the theoretical contribution, with the data collected, it was possible to make a discussion and understand that workers seek, in a singular way, to create, to recreate and to renomalizate in work situations. This becomes feasible because the activity is a moment to be experienced by workers. However, it is prescribed, there will always be gaps. The work represents a double object to workers. On the one hand there is the objective of meeting the needs of financial independence and being placed socially. Second, the work met these workers as objects of desire. In work situations, it was possible to identify them investing emotionally, moving, preparing to meet beyond what had been prescribed by the company. It can be inferred that such mobilization occurred from the relationship that formed with their families, parents, friends, colleagues and teachers, but also by the notion of class: being metallurgists. When putting a magnifying glass on the singularity of the employee, it emerges a big challenge: to consider the consequences for the training worker of the singularity present in the work activity and its relationship with the knowledge. Thus, it can influence education workers fundaments in our country.