labor (de)form: Flexibilization and Precariousness by the Perspective of the Work Psychology

Abstract

Based on the intersections of the perspectives of sociology and labor law, Jean- Paul Sartre's existentialism and psychoanalysis about labor reform, and especially on outsourcing, this article gathers reflections resulting from the presentation of its authors in the Round Table that integrated the Program of the II Meeting of the Interinstitutional Laboratory of Subjectivity and Work, II Symposium Psychology and Work: Social Dimensions and Subjectivity and VIII Meeting of Organizational and Work Psychology (EPOT) held from November 21 to 23, 2018 at the University State of Maringa, Parana. It discusses the understanding of the main changes resulting from the labor reform; flexibility as a guideline for social work structuring; and the role of outsourcing - highlighting the issue of worker vulnerability, isolation, unprotection and helplessness. It concludes with the effort to draw attention to the need for the occupational psychologist not to restrict his focus to external working conditions, as well as to understand how his relationship with these conditions occurs, that is, to be willing to have reflexive and critical awareness about the implications of their actions in the face of the precariousness of work and worker life.