ACTIVITIES AND LABOR BIOGRAPHIES OF RECOVERING MEMBERS OF THE MACAO / RN CONVICTION AND PROTECTION ASSOCIATION: BETWEEN CRIME AND WORK
work; prisons; APAC; social work psychology.
The present study intends to focus on the incarcerated work, understanding the role played by the labor activities in prisoners' lives, given that they are components of human socialization, have a centrality in the constitution of the individuals, besides exerting a psychological function in the people's lives by allowing the construction of meanings and meanings. For this, the theoretical epistemological perspective that guided the investigation was the Social Psychology of Work that assumes that work is a central category, and that is situated in intersubjective relations, considering materiality and historicity. It is a qualitative research, with a descriptive and transversal study, with ethnographic and participant observation characteristics. The focus of the study was the Association of Support and Assistance to the Convicted (APAC) of Macau/RN and counted on the participation of 11 people in deprivation of liberty. The instruments/techniques used were: documentary analysis, individual narrative interviews, photographic records and field journals. The themes of the interviews focused on the work history, work in prisons and future prospects. The narratives were analyzed considering such axes, being submitted to textual analysis of Descending Hierarchical Classification (DHC) with the aid of software. In addition to the narratives, the photographic records and the field diaries were added to the results in order to compose a global analysis, considering the narratives of the participants and the observation of the researcher. The results revealed a precarious, exhaustive, limiting and marked relationship due to pre-incarceration. In addition, to work in the prison is seen under a cruel regime, of humiliation, with exhausting hourly loads, arriving to be likened to a slavery. With the insertion in the APAC, the perception brought from the work is his as source of fulfillment, pleasure, learning medium, but without perspective of continuity in the world outside the walls. Post-incarceration plans for the future were uncertain and indeterminate, with only one certainty: that of not wanting to return to crime. However, the stigmas and the low level of schooling present themselves as challenges in this new stage. With this, the study hopes to contribute to the discussion about the relationship between subject and work in a prison context and in a situation of vulnerability and social fragility, aiming at the prison environment becoming a place that allows the necessary subsidies for a reintegration into society.