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0380/2020 - Health workers facing the pandemic: by a sociological analysis of care work.
Trabalhadoras da saúde face à pandemia: por uma análise sociológica do trabalho de cuidado.

Author:

• Silvana Maria Bitencourt - Bitencourt, S. M. - <silvanasocipufmt@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3183-373X

Co-author(s):

• Cristiane Batista Andrade - Andrade, C. B. - <cristianeandrade@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1441-9171


Abstract:

This text aims to discuss the care of health workers in the face of Covid-19, under the sociological analysis of authors who have been discussing it while a job that is mostly performed by womenthe lower classes is devalued. and suffers low pay. In addition, it is an activity that involves the social constructions of emotions and has used the body as a work tool in caring for others. In addition, the precariousness of health work in Brazilian society, which has intensified in recent decades, such as the increase in temporary contracts, loss of labor rights, the overload of activities, precarious working conditions, among others, are added to the increase in attendance hospital in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this context, health workers experience the absence of personal protective equipment, fear of contamination by the virus, concerns about children and family members, experiences in the face of death and illness of themselves and professional colleagues. This text points to the need for governmental attention, as well as for the management of health work and professional class bodies, analysing the working conditions that health workers are experiencing in facing the pandemic.

Keywords:

working conditions; pandemic; workers women; gender analyses.

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