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The new institutionalities of work in the public sector: the community health agents

  • Jacob Carlos Lima
  • Fernanda Flávia Cockell
  • Jacob Carlos Lima

    Professor titular do Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brasil. Doutor em Sociologia pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Pós-doutor pelo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

    Fernanda Flávia Cockell

    Pesquisadora do Grupo de Estudos Trabalho e Mobilidade Social do Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, São Paulo, Brasil. Doutora em Engenharia de Produção pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos.



Abstract

The article analyses the appearance of community health agents as a worker category in a context of labor relation flexibilization, in a double sense: valuing work, greater autonomy, continued education, and social skills as primordial elements in the State's implementation of social services; and the atypical character represented by labor agreements outside of the public servents' stability, a condition for the activity that is carried out, on one hand, and, on the other, a factor of social vulnerability of the worker by the preponderance of outsourcing and informal agreements, among others, which are marked by unstable work ties.

Keywords

flexible work,
atypical work,
social vulnerability,
community health agents

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