Tempo livre com lazer do trabalhador e a promessa de felicidade

This research detects relations and contradictions between labor and leisure.It points out some factors, in the present conditions of paid labor, that are showing the limits and possibilities for the existence of free time with leisure in the life of the workers in the historically established reality of a metal-mechanics industry located in the town of Jaraguá do Sul, State of Santa Catarina, Brazil.This XX company was chosen as the locus for investigation because it had a production base with advanced technology and has adopted gymnastics in the company during its internal work period.One group of workers in one of its factories is also part of this investigation.The data was gathered by means of 118 questionnaires and 120 interviews held on the factory floor, in addition to some important direct observations, within and outside the factory.We have devoted special attention to what occurs on Saturdays and Sundays, when we seek to perceive the leisure practiced outside the factory.Furthermore, we utilize documents that were made available by the factory directors, with whom we have conversed on several occasions, as well as section heads, workers and other people in the town.The interest in this study concerning the utilization of the labor-leisure connection, is justified inasmuch as there exists a general opinion that technologically developed basis of production, along with the presence of bodily exercise during the working hours, promotes leisure, and that up to now there has been no known research on this problem based on analyses of empirical data.In this way we perceive, from the data that was collected that gymnastics in the company gives evidence of the body that produces and the body that plays.However, we found that this practice serves as a work organization technology, which guarantees productivity by restoring the equilibrium and rest of the body.The theoretical basis supporting the analysis considers aspects that provide a clearer understanding of recent changes that have taken place in labor process.Production restructuring engenders gymnastics in the company and expresses the adaptation of the toyotism forms to the industrializing process in Brazil.Actually, the assimilation of the model in that company is carried out in a hybrid manner and has been taking place since the 1970s.In the life of the people in the group that was investigated when they were away from the work environment, we found the absence of the body that plays.In these conditions, the workers have no time for themselves, time to be used for leisure.Furthermore, we found that a contradiction in the labor organization process, since it includes gymnastics in the company and shows the body that plays, even though the body is absent or the worker is outside his body.In this way we could see that the organization process in which these workers are inserted limits the existence of free time with leisure in their lives, and that the clocked time of their factory commands the entire concrete existence of these people, both inside and outside the factory.Free time with leisure but without unemployment constitutes a promise of happiness, which is possible, although it still has no concrete existence

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