Territórios da degradação do trabalho e os agravos à saúde dos jovens trabalhadores em Santa Catarina

Abstract

The relevance of geographic science is spread by proposing to analyze the intrinsic and complex relationships between the human being and the environment, and the collective social effects that are linked. With the advance of the capitalist system, this contact increasingly undergoes significant changes and, consequently, new parameters, products, weights and values are incorporated into the sum. In this work, we approach one of these elements, related to the health of young workers in the state of Santa Catarina, aggravated from the Territory of Work Degradation. We present quantitative data in the research from the “Anuário Estatístico de Acidentes de Trabalho” (Statistical Yearbook of Work Accidents), and from the bases of the National Institute of Social Security and the Ministry of Labor and Welfare, seeking to highlight the damage caused by the lack of safety at work, and the overload of workers. We also deal with the theme of youth and its specificities as a social category, extrapolating the idea of a transitional period, which is subjected to risk conditions early on, and is the portion of the population most affected by these diseases. The basis for this relationship comes from the theoretical discussion about capitalism, and how the usurpation of the vital function of work caused by its demands turned it into a tool for excessive production, degrading the territory, training bodies and managing minds, establishing itself as a manager of the physical and mental illness.