Indústria frigorífica: a voz do trabalhador entre a necessidade e a exaustão

The capitalist productive processes have shown adverse effects on the labor relations established in agricultural production, especially due to the imposition of excessive hours that bring serious consequences to the workers’ health. This context includes meat processing and distribution carried out by the slaughterhouses. This paper aims at checking how the meanings that circulate around the work in those places are being produced by the workers themselves. In order to make those voices heard, we used interviews, which were built from the articulation between topics of interests, objectives and problems organized in blocks as questions and hypotheses of possible answers as well. The analyses were made according to the theoretical perspective of the Discourse Analysis, emphasizing its utterance aspects and privileging the study of linguistic marks indicating the formation of a group and its specific, reciprocal way of uttering that constitute a certain discursive practice.