Os trabalhadores da Ciência: a crise da ação coletiva dos docentes da UFPA

Abstract

This work refers to collective action fild of studies, more especiclally about trade unionism organization. The empircal object is the Professors Association of the Federal University of Pará (ADUFPA). Intruce contributions of the Sociology os Organization and Social Movements in a Sociology of Work. Discuss the critical condition of the proferssors trade union in the frame of the degradation of higher education and the especifix working conditions. Through the empirical interviews and documental research has been verified a situation that can be called collective action crises. The theoretical answers from sociology of work to the trade unionism Brazil crises, despite of their important contribution to evaluate the macro conditions of work and trade unionism, do not allow an explain for this case. Because of what, does not ask about the organization and the specific form of work control. Concludes that it was constituted an specific mode of control of the professor´s work at the public Brazilian universities, the intellectual productivism, adapted to a degradation of conditions for scientific research. Like others, this mode has been affected the capacity of collective action by means of time reduction and the subjectification of the injunctions of the necessity of scientific production at any cost. The graduate is your local of reproduction that introduces a specific form of alienation. Proposes that the nature of the collective action crises, even though the contextual aspects, can be find at the trade unionism practice, market by absence of organized sustained interaction between leaders and the workers that would lead to a construction and reconstruction the conditions to mobilization.