Trabalho ainda que tan tan : os trabalhadores e trabalhadoras da linha de frente e a inclusão de pessoas em sofrimento mental no mercado formal de trabalho.

Abstract

The purpose of the research is, in general terms, to understand the relationship between the State, madness, and work. To this end, it asks: how do public agents that work in mental health care and, with the productive insertion of people with disabilities, enable people in mental distress (schizophrenics and bipolar) to become active economic agents in the formal labor market? In an attempt to answer such a question, we use the seminal work of Michael Lipsky (1980) and his analytical category, 'the street-level bureaucrats'. Like the author, we start from the assumption that the situational locus of the frontline workers, who act in the project of insertion of people in mental distress in the formal labor market, developed in Belo Horizonte - MG, determines the benefits that will be delivered by the State to these citizens. Our hypothesis is that the political actors we call frontline workers, in the use of their discretionary power and cognitive simplifications, rationalize the service to be delivered to citizens by creating eligibility criteria that balance the demands of the subjects and the scarcity of resources. The methodology used includes 10 semi-structured interviews conducted with public agents who work in the living together centers (SUS/PBH), in the psychiatric outpatient clinics of the Hospital das Clínicas (SUS - UFMG) and in the Regional Superintendence of the Ministry of Labor (SRTE/MG). It also includes insertions, with participant observation, in all stages of project implementation, such as companies, organizations of the S System and the third sector. It concludes that the decisions of these political actors are redistributive and allocative, i.e., they exercise social control and that the 2019 labor reform created what Lotta and Vaz (2015) call a gray zone, i.e., the State created mechanisms that generated the absence of rights for the beneficiary worker of the project who has a more severe psychic destabilization at work. It ends by suggesting that, the actions of public agents who operate projects whose purpose is to insert the person in mental suffering at work spread throughout Brazil should be investigated. These seem good indicators to understand the capacity of the State's responses to the demand for work of the so-called insane.