86.74 The disabled “Good Worker” and strategies of inclusion

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Sadrivaan A and B (The Hilton Istanbul Hotel )
Fernando Donato Vasconcelos Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego, Brazil
The author had studied politics and practical of inclusion of people with physical disablement in the work market in Salvador, Brazil. He had considered that disablement is, above all, a social product. For him, the strategies of inclusion in the work adopted in Brazil are insufficient and must taking in account the complexity of the world of the work and the involved individuals. 35 people have been interviewed: 22 physical disabled workers, 6 other people among their heads and colleagues, and 7 professionals and leaderships of institution of disabled people. Specific legislation and statistics of employment were analysed, beyond carried through visits the dedicated institutions to the qualification and/or inclusion of disabled in the job market. The author affirms that the system of quotas of job is not enough to guarantee an enough number of jobs for the disabled workers. The author had identified that strategies and practical of inclusion marked for situations that calls of "ironies of the inequality", as, for example, the fact of heads compelling workers to treat “disabled people” as the “normal” ones; the vision of the impairment as a virtue, for facilitating the access to the job and the use of the disabled as example of “good worker”, in reason of its overcoming of limits.

Learning Objectives: Analyze politics and practical of inclusion of people with physical disablement in the work market in Salvador, Brazil.

Sub-Theme: Lessons learned from community-based public health research