Os impactos experienciados pelas mulheres negras na terceirização de serviços : um estudo na UFPB durante a pandemia de covid-19

Abstract

The precariousness of black women's work in the COVID-19 pandemic is the central theme of this dissertation. The analysis of the topic investigated is based on the perspectives of female workers in the outsourcing of services, during the work activities carried out at the Federal University of Paraíba, between 2020 and 2021. This case study set out to reveal the impacts experienced at work by a group of black women in the context of the pandemic. The research contextualizes the world of work, addressing the outsourcing of services, the overexploitation of workers and the management of death, accentuated by the COVID-19 crisis, highlighting the implications of ethnic-racial and gender issues. To this end, we sought to point out the political-administrative performance of the public institution, which was under the interventionist management aligned with the Bolsonaro government, in relation to the biosafety criteria of work in the fight against coronavirus for this public. In addition, the research discusses the relationship between job insecurity and necropolitics, where the state selectively deals with the life and death of the population. This research is based on the philosophical path of Materialist Feminism. The theoretical review is guided by the conceptions of authors related to the metamorphosis of the world of work, which provides an opportunity to discuss how, in particular, gender issues, identity and the experiences of black female bodies impact on the lives of female workers in the capitalist power structure. The theoretical-methodological approach used a qualitative exploratory approach, relying on the technique of intensive direct observation and using semi-structured interviews applied in the work environment of the interlocutors, on campus I at UFPB. As a secondary tool, we used documentary research with a survey of public archives and media reports on the subject. The information collected was analyzed using Minayo's thematic content analysis approach to social research. As a result, it was confirmed that the outsourcing of services in the public sector during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the precariousness of women's work, especially black women. The impacts suffered by female workers stem from disorganization, unhealthiness and difficult working conditions. UFPB's Institutional Management Policy has promoted the normalization of death, especially of female outsourcing workers.