Worker's health in times of social insecurity

Abstract

This bibliographical research, with historical-critical theoretical reference, aims to reflect on the main challenges posed to the field of workers' health in contemporary times, as well as the possibilities of confronting the way of producing illness of capitalism. We can verify that workers' health is not limited to the physical environment of the company but permeates issues of social security and social determinants in health and that work is a central category in social relations. Thus, it is not possible to understand the health-disease process in workers' health without linking it to the process of exploitation of labor in the capitalist mode of production, that is, the debate of worker health is inseparable from capitalism. From this perspective, we conclude that only the collective organization of workers, in the struggle for an emancipated society, will be able to curb the craving for capital and, thus, build the health of the worker in fact, with social security being a key point that must be non-negotiable by the working class.