出版社：Fundação Jorge Duprat Figueiredo de Segurança e Medicina do Trabalho
摘要：Introduction: Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex (Comperj) is one of thelargest heavy construction in Brazil. It has constituted a scenario of workers’struggles that express conflicts of labor relations with implications on workers’health. Objective: to analyze the work and health of Comperj’s constructionworkers from their perspective, adopting as reference their struggles and strikes.Methods: qualitative social research with participant observation, documentarysurvey and workers and union leaders’ interviews. Results: the explorationpractices observed in the workplaces were analyzed in three categories:outsourcing and workers’ health, extension of working time and management bystress. Conclusion: taken together, the results represent a continuous impositionof damages on the construction workers’ health. In this context, the workers’collective struggle constitutes a basic condition for the protection of workers’health.
关键词：civil construction; work intensification; extension of working hours; occupational health; outsourcing.
