Abstract

COLLADO, Patricia A.. Work overload, health and subjectivity. The case of university teachers in Mendoza (Argentina). Estud. trab. [online]. 2023, n.65, pp.32-61. ISSN 0327-5744.

This writing summarizes an investigation that took over two years in its preparation, field trip and systematization (2019-2020). In this investigation, we proposed to create a questionnaire that connects the work relationship network of the teachers´ subjectivism; this means the ways of being and behave, the ways of relate and do in the workplace, that explain the ways of getting sick, coping and suffering from work overload. For this purpose, we constructed a questioner based on both proven background information on the subject and on the voices of the study subjects-objects with whom we recognize a trajectory of co-production research. The main results indicate that the feminization of the teaching staff has an impact on the work overload´s perception and consequences. The majority of teachers recognize an impairment in spheres of their healthy life in relation with work and in connection with that; teachers perceive a deterioration in their health related with their work career. For this group, the “teaching task itself” is one of their biggest income of satisfaction at work even though workers perceive its social downgrading. Even with a high level of unionization, the majority of those surveyed resolve work problems through individual and institutional channels.

Keywords : Teachers; Subjectivity; Health; Work overload; Impairments.

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