THE YEAR WHEN THE WORLD OF WORK STOP?

Abstract

This article is an effort to understand the present time, in which an unprecedented health crisis emerges, caused by the new coronavirus pandemic, from March 2020. It analyzes the challenges for the work environment and its implications of the health crisis for the working class, sometimes discarded from the formal market, and maybe, sometimes, considered surplus. It starts from the assumption of the situation that the public calamity situation, in which we are immersed, has made the capital crisis more visible and acute, exposing the fallacy of counter-reforms, in favor to the interests of big capital and to the detriment of the needs and rights of the working class. In this way, elements that configure the main problems that affect health workers directly involved in fighting the covid-19 pandemic are brought up, materializing through data from the Worker’s Health care services in a federal public institution. Thus, the strategic challenges in confronting the ongoing pandemic are pointed out, in particular the surveillance and health care actions for male and female workers within the scope of the Unified Healthy System (SUS).