O risco de suicídio dos homens em situação de assédio moral no trabalho

Abstract

Violence is part of the essence of modern sociability, and its expressions in different aspects of life imply the maintenance of the status quo. In the workplace, violent practices against the working class occur in different ways, including bullying, which leads to a deterioration in working conditions and health. The limited data on the deterioration in the quality of life of men and women who are victims of bullying at work shows different impacts. It is noteworthy that men were more prone to suicidal ideation and attempts. Given this scenario, the general objective of the study is to analyze the multideterminations of suicide risk among men in situations of workplace bullying. To achieve this goal, the investigative process was based on historical-dialectical materialism, using exploratory research with a qualitative approach. The technical procedures involved a bibliographical and documentary review, making it possible to identify productions that deal with the subject studied, such as the works of Karl Marx, Giovanni Alves, Nilson Berenchtein Netto, Margarida Barreto, Georges Minois, Lélia Gonzalez and Valeska Zanello; and the publications of the World Health Organization (WHO). It can be seen that the problem of suicide is specific in the context of different forms of sociability, but the various expressions of violence permeate all these historical periods. This violent dynamic, in the particularity of capitalist society, is fertile ground for the emergence of bullying at work. In this scenario, the desire for death-of-self occurs in working-class men not intentionally, but articulated by the processes of exploitation and oppression that are present during the (humiliating) working day. These two dimensions have distinct characteristics, since the realm of exploitation is made up of structural and conjunctural aspects of the capitalist system, while the realm of oppression is formed by the patriarchal and racist system. The articulation of these aspects implies the risk of suicide for men in situations of bullying at work.