New Technologies and Subjectivities: The Case of Workers in the Operational Sector Looking for New Knowledge through Higher Education.
Name: REGINALDO NASCIMENTO ROCHA
Publication date: 14/12/2005
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| MÔNICA DE FÁTIMA BIANCO | Advisor * |
Summary: The growth of the world-wide competition, the globalization and the crisis on the scientific organization of work had brought alterations on society, on the companies and on the behavior of workers and their unions. The changes include new forms of work, now with a better developed technological base. The company CAPIXABA is also inserting in this reality as they promote the process of restructuration in the 1990s, which includes a production attempt and a deprivation of the workers subjectivities. In parallel with those changes, a great deal of workers in the operational sector had been searching for new acquirements by means of superior education, raising too much the level of qualification and education in the operational sector. In this way, the goal of the research was to find out subjective and interferers factors on those workers behavior. The research is both qualitative and descriptive, and uses the study of cases as a procedure of data collection and the conversation technique for the analysis. The obtained results show that the workers of the operational sector are searching for higher level of education, specially because: there is a great deal of vacancy being offered on private universities; they are getting ready for the work market; they try to be in the same level of the other workers of the operational sector who are already high graduated, which is an influence to them; they want to have different professions, in parallel to the operators function; they are influenced by the company in such a way that they will for professional ascension.
