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0233/2021 - From being one’s own entrepreneur to the medicalization of performance: reflections upon labour market flexibilization
Do empreendedor de si mesmo à medicalização da performance: reflexões sobre a flexibilização no mundo do trabalho

Author:

• Ana Caroline Secco - Secco, A. C. - <ana.caroline.secco@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2495-6678

Co-author(s):

• Douglas Francisco Kovaleski - Kovaleski, D. F. - Chapecó, SC - <douglas.kovaleski@gmail.com> +
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8415-9614


Abstract:

This critical-reflective essay seeks to discuss the medicalization of performance based on reflections on flexibility in the world of work and the phenomenon of self-entrepreneurship. In a context of economy financialization, productive restructuring and State’s weakening as guarantor of social rights, deregulation and informality are increasingly prevailing, the promotion of labour flexibilization occurs in line with political-ideological strategies of neoliberal inspiration. There emerges ways of individuality tied to the construction of a multifunctional worker, available to develop multiple abilities, which becomes a potential enterprise and having as principle the same market dynamics of this enterprise. One’s own entrepreneur needs to invest in itself to keep valuable and great functioning conditions, in order to avoid, to the fullest, its own decapitalization. Therefore, in order to enable conditions to sustain the image of success and of author of its own story, the usage of medicines, stimulants and polyvitamins, has been used as a strategy in search of high performance. To reflect on “one’s own entrepreneur”, the new ways of subjectivity and the suffering derivedthose, as well as the apparatus that produces them, it is necessary and consists on a challenge for community health.

Keywords:

Job Market. Performance-Enhancing Substances. Public Health.

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Secco, A. C., Kovaleski, D. F.. From being one’s own entrepreneur to the medicalization of performance: reflections upon labour market flexibilization. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2021/Jul). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/from-being-ones-own-entrepreneur-to-the-medicalization-of-performance-reflections-upon-labour-market-flexibilization/18132



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