MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUICIDE AT WORK: DENIAL OF THE HUMAN CONDITION THROUGH WORK
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HANNAH ARENDT, WORKER´S MENTAL HEALTH, SUICIDE AT WORK.Abstract
This article aims to study aspects of workers' psychosocial health based on Hannah Arendt's concepts of work and labor. It brings the differentiation of the author's concepts of work and labor, describing the contemporary mode of production and the risks of mental illness to which workers are exposed in face of the demands of productivity. The research hypothesis is that the human condition of work as a way of survival is currently facing the flexible accumulation of capital that leads to a work environment that can cause suffering and mental illness to the worker, and may even lead to your death. The methodology Applied was bibliographic research. It was considered that changes in work relationships and in the environment impose a logic of production in systems of goals that does not give space to subjectivity, which causes the precariousness of work relationships and the breaking of interpersonal ties and the solidarity network that in the past provided protection to the worker's mental health, which can lead to mental illness.