The changes of the work world and the consequences in the individual subjectivity

Abstract

This study addresses the issue of labor and its importance as a central factor in the life of men and women who, by living in a capitalist country, have their identities and ways of life constituted by this system. In the past few decades, the world has suffered deep transformations in the world of work, and its relations and consequently in the subjectivity of individuals. In this period, factors have arose and gained sustenance such as structural unemployment, precarious labor, constant demands and dissatisfaction. Workers are increasingly trapped by the over valorization of capital in relation to the individual. With the transformations that have taken place in this context, resulting from the technological revolution, men and women have been dealing with tensions to adapt to these new times. They are transformations with which men and women workers are not always able to keep pace and by suffering from greater stress, they expose themselves to disease and become physically and psychically fragile.