They do not use Lattes: precariousness and social invisibility in outsourced workers of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Outsourcing; University; Social Invisibility; Aporophobia.
The present work investigates the processes of precarization and social invisibility of outsourced workers of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and how they both feed back. We start from a critical bibliography on the subject of work (MARX) and its flexibility (HARVEY; ANTUNES; MÉSZÁROS) in the contemporary society marked by aporophobia (CORTINA), seeking together with reports from the workers themselves the understanding of the phenomenon. The external work of cleaning in university is invisibilizado (COSTA), but we investigate here how this happens with workers who share the same internal spaces, observing a case of extreme separation between intellectual and manual work. Separation operated and observed from the everyday (HELLER; GOFFMAN; MARTINS; SENNET). Finally, we understand that the locus of the university must be considered as a fundamental element in the research within the conceptual pair of university-organization and university-institution (CHAUÍ), since it produces and reproduces certain theories and ideas (EAGLETON; HARVEY; JAMESON) that affect the social life of the academic community in which the workers studied here are, paradoxically, included through exclusion.