Relações de trabalho na dinâmica do capitalismo contemporâneo: uma antecâmara para o suicídio?

Abstract

The suicide related to work is a phenomenon that alerts the organizational world in shocking ways. Understanding the reason for this phenomenon is not an easy task, considering that it is multifactorial. However, analyzing the issue from the point of view of labor relations, it is possible to find elements that help in the production of suicide as a means of ending the suffering derived from the labor sphere. In this way, we propose in the present article to discuss about these elements, produced in capitalist society, that present the suicide as an alternative to the individual. In order to do so, we briefly analyze the changes in the world of capital since the 1970s, going through the dismantling of the current regulatory regime and entering the era of flexibilization, which led to an increase in the precariousness of labor relations, leading to elements such as stress, burnout, moral and sexual harassment, among many other scourges, fruits of the intensification of the precariousness of work. The analysis of changes in labor relations from this perspective has shown that those are the elements, together with so many others, that mediate the creation of suicide as a plausible possibility for the individual, with the capitalist mode of production being the way organized, directly linked to the suicide phenomenon.