ABSTRACT
No presente artigo buscamos comparar, a partir de uma revisão bibliográfica, as teorias de Louis Le Guillant e Christophe Dejours em relação ao controle sobre o trabalho e seu impacto sobre a saúde mental dos trabalhadores. Para tanto, utilizamos as análises de pesquisas, realizadas por esses dois autores, tendo as telefonistas de Paris como universo. A principal categoria de análise para entender as semelhanças e diferenças entre eles foram suas teorias de base, a saber, o marxismo, no caso de Le Guillant, e a psicanálise, no caso de Dejours. Dessa forma, pudemos concluir que o controle sobre o trabalho tem importantes impactos sobre a saúde mental das telefonistas nas duas opções teóricas. Porém, o papel do contexto organizacional e a centralidade do trabalho como campo de estudo parece diferir, dependendo da teoria de base utilizada.
This paper reviewed and compared the theories of Louis Le Guillant and Christophe Dejours related to control over work and its impacts on worker's mental health. To do so, we used the researches these two authors had conducted among telephone operators in Paris. The main analysis category we have used to understand similitudes and differences between them was their base theory - marxism, to Le Guillant, and psychoanalysis, to Dejours. We could infer from our study that control over work has important impacts over telephone operators' mental health in both conceptions, but the role of organizational context and the centrality of control as a study field seems to differ, depending on the base theory used.
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Workforce , Mental Health , WorkABSTRACT
A study was carried out on 79 female telephone operators working in a Telecommunication Centre in Kuala Lumpur to determine the prevalence of Work Related Upper Limb Disorders (WRULD) and its risk factors. Data collection for this study was done between December 2000 and May 2001. The presence of WRULD was determined based on a guided questionnaire and physical examination. The response rate for this study was 94.9% (n= 75) and results showed that the prevalence of WRULD among the female telephone operators was 48.0%: Stage 1= 38.9%, Stage 2= 19.4%, Stage 3= 38.9%, Stage 4= 0% and Stage 5= 2.8%. In the telecommunication centre, it was found that those with WRULD had a mean of 11.59±9.09 years of employment duration whereas those without WRULD had a mean of 9.89 ± 8.48 years of employment duration. None of the factors studied such as Body Mass Index, age, ethnicity, menstrual cycle, hormone replacement therapy, overtime work, duration of employment in the present unit and in the telecommunication centre differ in distribution between subjects with and without WRULD. This could be contributed by factors such as small number of subjects or the common healthy worker effect found in occupational health research. The findings studied of this study show that almost 40.0% of the workers experienced pain and neurological symptoms. Since none of the factors was found to be associated with WRULD, an elaborate study with a case-control design is needed in order to match cases and enable researchers to control the effect of confounding factors. This will ensure risk factors pertinent to WRULD in the Malaysian setting to be identified.