Coesos em boha la hansi, yelsha: percepcões de risco entre os trabalhadores sazonais da construção civil, na Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This work is an anthropological reflection on the relationship between seasonal workers in the construction and personal protective equipment, and aims to contemplate the perspectives of the group related to the risk in the daily routine of the work exercise. From the ethnographic method and direct observation technique, I tried to interact with the workers in a Construction company Civil, Oil Industry Services called Maputogal, Lda, in the City of Maputo. There are some sociological perspectives related to the notion of “risk” or occupational accident, that, theorists like Evans Pritchard (1948), considers accident a deliberate event or premeditated; Ribeiro (1999), defends that "risk" is a work process in itself, leaves notorious the idea of ​​chance; or even “appropriation of risk” to what transcends any measure of mitigation in the work environment due to the inherent activity integrated in the lives of individuals, (Lihahe, 2004). According to Granjo (2004; 2006), it is understood that the “risk” is multi-perceptible that can be probabilistic / non-probabilistic, the same line of reflection is found in the distinction between the “Narrative disease to Infirmity” and “Normative disease” (Alves and Sousa, 1999), a debate that influenced me because it allows to understand different logic related to PPE, of which the workers see new job opportunities, the employer considers containment of employees acquisition costs and the legislator, in turn, strives for the need to protect human physical integrity. In this sense, we see that job risk is contextual, pluralistic and that individuals are active because they try to do something to prevent situations analogous to risk or understood as such. For seasonal workers in this sector, PPE symbolically represents future occupational opportunities, a fact that makes the group of accomplices in each other a line of cohesion by the communion of interest among themselves and in this case, the “boha la hansi, yelsha”, is form found by the group in order to safeguard the issue of cyclical unemployment understood as the main risk which can result in psychosomatic illnesses such as stress and insomnia. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)