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Aqui ninguém domina ninguém: sentidos do trabalho e produção de saúde para trabalhadores de assentamento do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra
Nobody gives orders here: the meanings of work and health for settlers from the Landless Rural
Workers’ Movement
El significado del trabajo y promoción de la salud para los asentados del Movimiento de
Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra
Júlio César Borges dos Santos
Élida Azevedo Hennington 2

Escola Nacional de Saúde
Pública Sergio Arouca,
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz,
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
2 Instituto de Pesquisa
Clínica Evandro Chagas,
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz,
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
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Correspondência
J. C. B. Santos
Escola Nacional de Saúde
Pública Sergio Arouca,
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.
Rua Benjamin Constant 90, apto. 602, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
20241-150, Brasil. [e-mail] 1

Abstract

Resumo

This paper discusses the partial results of qualitative research on lifestyles and meanings attributed to health and work among settlers from the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) and identifies strategies developed by workers to maintain and/or promote health. The study was conducted in a rural settlement affiliated with the MST in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. The ergological approach was the main theoretical and methodological reference for understanding work from the perspective of “human activity”. The study techniques included document analysis, participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups, and the data were submitted to thematic content analysis. The landless rural workers attributed the meanings of freedom and satisfaction to their work, associated with self-management and autonomy, which they reported as key elements for health. Although rural work was considered tiring, the work and way of life in the settlement provided this community with possibilities for ensuring their health and resisting the hegemonic agribusiness model.

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