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This article carries out a study of visuality related to the cangaceiro Antônio Silvino in cordel literature. The paper studies pictures present in the covers of seven flyers about Antônio Silvino published in the first half of the 20th century. Besides the cordel’s, the article dialogues with pictures published in two magazines: O Malho and Flor de Liz. The paper adopts two theoretical concepts: visual culture and pathosformenl which are used with the main intention of observing the visual continuities and discontinuities around the image of the cangaceiro Antônio Silvino in cordel literature. It was possible to observe that certain elements, «gestures» and signs of a culture and society do not isolate and end in themselves in their historical time, but they overcome the barriers of temporalities, establishing connections and interconnections with images of other supports, contexts and historical temporalities. Likewise, it is possible to understand that the reutilization of pictures follows interests that pervade the editorial field, where authors and editors transit in memories and places that offer a visual repertoire that is taken to the construction of representations and visual narratives present in cordel literature

The paper presents an initial analysis of issues related to health work in Brazil, in the context of COVID-19 Pandemic, seeking to contribute to a debate about the relationships between work process, the ongoing psychological dynamics and the struggle for health. It is based on a framework of Work Organizational Psychology, guided by the point of view of the activity and experience, to account for materials emerging from an experiment that has been developed within the scope of “University Extension”, under the coordination of the two authors of the paper. Initially, both the international emergency context of COVID-19 and general characteristics of the work situations that are being faced by health professionals are presented. Then, upon selection of a main axis as the object of attention, the analysis of some work situations, present in that dramatic context, is carried out, which allowed to present some clues, as conclusion.

In the companies, the Digital Transformation (DT) implies several organizational changes with consequences on effective tasks and working conditions. However, these changes are analyzed under the scope of technology-centered approaches, where the “tool” is considered the main solution to solve all work-related problems or by a human-direct approach focused on quality of life at work. This paper aims to show that the work determinants evolve under the effect of the interactions among several changes related to DT. The findings are based on two field studies about practical ergonomics interventions in two different services companies. The results underline the need to change conventional approaches ruling projects of technological change. This paper proposes alternatives to implement such projects, by considering at the same time project leading, tool designing and change management.

The scope of this paper is the digitalization of the service at the National Institute of Social Security – INSS, the federal institution in charge of implementing the Brazilian Welfare Services policy. Based on the framework of Work Psychology and Activity-centered Ergonomics, a field study has been carried out in order to understand the conditions under which the “Digital INSS Project” has been implemented and their impact on the activity performed by the public servants. It revealed the heterogeneity in terms of production control and resources to enable the appropriation of technological tools by the workers from different units. Given the intensification of work, the regulatory strategies try to balance the production demands and the health preservation. They do so through schemes to use the computer tools that confront these workers with additional workload, given the accomplishment of several simultaneous operations and the necessity to validate the work using paper, in the face of the unexpected generated by the digital support and the experience still to be built in its resolution.

SMACH (Multi-agent Simulation of Human Activity and Household Consumption) is a simulation platform within EDF’s R&D framework. It uses simulation to anticipate and reduce energy consumption at different places of analysis (home, district, town, country). With this paper we aim to explain what the course of action technological research program involves, and to this end we refer to several years of SMACH research. We essentially focus on the importance of the organic relationship between technology and human activity, and we show how this organic relationship evolves over the different stages that this technological research program involves. This paper may be viewed as a basis for generalizing and clarifying the criteria required to validate such a program and as a contribution towards reflection on design in ergonomics.

Since the 1950s, failures in the development of anthropocentric technologies suggest that general design principles open the way for socio-technical projects. However, the latter do not sufficiently integrate the social, the subjective and the technical aspects underlying any kind of industrial project. This paper shows how the "course of action" theory, which is part of the "activity" ergonomics field, supports this integration. This is achieved by showing how the concepts and methods of the course of action theory, used to design new work situations when automating small hydroelectric power plants (SHPPs), leads to a broader empirical praxeology for addressing H-H (training) and H-M (automation) interfaces, or H-H-M systems. Theoretically, this paper contributes to the technological pole of the Research Program of the Course of Action while, in practical terms, it warns Industry 4.0 professionals not to repeat the old myth (and expression) of the "manless factory".

This paper is intended as a contribution to risk and security analysis in organizations dedicated to the execution of measures for the population in conflict with the criminal law. In other words, this paper attempts to advance within a theoretical framework that allows for an analysis of the particularities of risk management in environments of deprivation of liberty, such as prisons. For this purpose, information is taken from the case of the National Institute for Adolescent Social Inclusion (INISA), in Uruguay. This is the only institution in the country dedicated to the management of measures on adolescents who were convicted of a crime. The central objective will be to analyze what different meanings of security coexist in everyday work and how these different perspectives converge in real work.

This paper presents a brief historic overview about Portuguese Crypto-Judaism it points out the reasons why finding and recognizing these archeological remains is dificult using the controversial hekhalot as an exemple, and identifies similarities and differences in the ambiguities and heterogeneities of these findings based on a summary table. Though this approach, the objective is to seek for a research model that can be applied to the study of other hekhalot using the case study of Oporto´s hekhal. A new possibly unknown hekhal located in Monforte (Portalegre) is then identified. Finally, the paper proposes an interpretation of the possible hekhalot in the context of Portuguese CryptoJudaism.

This paper focuses on the contexts with bell-beaker ceramics of the North of Portugal / Douro basin and compares them with neighboring regions, particularly with Galicia, covering the end the whole Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. After presenting a brief historiography of the studies in this region, it critically approaches the set of archaeological sites, emphasizing those with absolute dates and well preserved stratigraphies. Among them, it stands out the Crasto de Palheiros monumental enclosure because its bell-beaker ceramics have never been completely published and it is the archaeological site in northern Portugal that has yielded the largest number of sherds and vessels. Also, the quality of information obtained in the excavation allows to relate the campaniform contexts with the biography of the site. The paper also outlines the synthesis of this region, in relation to neighboring Galicia. In the discussion, it concludes the long duration of use of bell-beaker ceramics (from 2800/2700 to 1900/1800 BC) and, insofar as it also develops formal and decorative stylistics, raises interpretative hypotheses concerning the plurality of social functions that, in this long chronology, classical bell-beaker ceramics and local styles would have played in each local or regional context

This paper presents a brief discussion about Work psychology, in Brazil, and its interfaces with the Work clinics and the Worker's health field. Our starting point is the set of papers presented by Brazilian researchers in the "France-Latin America Symposium". A methodological cut has allowed us to elect these disciplinary fields by reading titles, reviews and paper references. The texts showed a significant convergence between the following themes : social and critical orientation, keeping interest in the working subjects ; the complexity and singularities that lead their work experiences ; the processes of constitution, the psychic and political-social commitments of these workers. We believe that a synthesis of the researches presented in this colloquium reflects the current moment of the Work Psychology in Brazil, in its connections with the Work Clinics and the Worker's Health.

The present paper seeks to highlight the institutional dimension of the analysis that was developed within the research project "Return to Work after an Accident: Overcoming Obstacles", promoted by the Associação Nacional de Deficientes Sinistrados no Trabalho (ANDST). Combining the cross-reading of legal and administrative documents, legal doctrine, data from a survey by questionnaire, and the testimonies collected through interviews and compiled on journey maps, this paper tries to analytically reconstruct the main moments that constitute a post-sinister path. Thereto it describes the contacts in the institutional approach to reparation, and articulates it with the representations of the victims about their personal cases and the obstacles they have faced.

This paper discusses some preliminary results of a mix-method sociological study about the experience of physical and social suffering lived by Portuguese workers involved in work accidents. Based on an extensive survey to a national sample of injured workers and in-depth interviews, the paper identifies the major characteristics that define how such physical and social pain was experienced and explores, with the help of Multiple Correspondence Analysis, the gains obtained from a socio-relational reading of this information. Besides showing that inequality is heavily inscribed in the (re)production of work accidents, the paper argues that social inscriptions and institutional devices play a major role in the definition of the post-accident pain experiences felt by the surveyed injured workers.

The main purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the connection between failure and «minne» in the German medieval poetry of the «Minnesang». The poems within this tradition recount love scenarios in which the feelings expressed by the lover towards the beloved are either constantly rejected or left unfulfilled. In this sense, this analysis will explores the ways in which ‘minne’ fails, as well as understand the limits of the error within the logic of this concept. To do so, the paper focusses on three poets: Der von Kürenberg, Dietmar von Aist and Rudolf von Fenis

Through the study of three letters dating from the late 18th century, this paper shows the importance of the epistolary documentation to the history of heritage and theory of restoration in Portugal, especially during the Enlightenment. This paper focus on one letter of the bishop of Beja D. Manuel do Cenáculo concerning the local medieval wall and tower, and two signed by the Italian architect Francesco Saverio Fabri that has as subject the roman theatre on Lisbon’s castle hill. By way of an integrated review of these documents, that show attitudes of safeguarding towards assets perceived as historical heritage, we reflect upon the awareness related to heritage or monuments prior to the Portuguese Romanticism.

This paper is based on the results of two research projects of the research group “Women in men’s worlds”: the research project “Women in men’s worlds: Barriers to enter and strategies to overcome them” (Ref.: FEM2011-25228), financed by the National Plan of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness between January 2011 and December 2013; and the project “Women in men’s worlds: Socialisation, labour organisation, and image” (CSO2014-54339-P), also financed by the National Plan between September 2015 and September 2018. In both research projects we have analysed occupational horizontal gender segregation in masculinised occupations in Spain. In this paper we present the results of both research projects about female garage mechanics, whose training and occupation reveal a very high rate of gender-related segregation or cases of gender-related discrimination and harassment or sexual harassment.

Cooperation is a fundamental part of the construction of the workers’ mental health and an essential pillar for building a work environment where there are trust at work. The objective of this paper is debating the formal and the informal cooperation networks which exist in the work of labor judges and the impacts they exert in facing the real work. Although the formal evaluation methods of judges are basically quantitative and individualist and there are no institutional mechanisms which reinforce the peer-to-peer exchanges and value the return of experience, we can observe the creation of cooperation networks within peers. This paper is part of the research “Constructing intersectorality in the field of occupational health: Perspective of Professionals in the Services Network of the City of São Paulo", sponsored by FAPESP. The methodology is based on the concepts of Psychodynamics of Work.

Isolated and hostile, the rugged and densely forested provinces of the New Conquests of Goa are usually seen as a space of alterity in relation to the Portuguese imperial order, mainly because of their ecological, social and cultural specificities. This paper proposes a preliminary analysis of the colonial attempts to govern this territory, by looking at the work of the Forestry Committee of 1863, which aimed at ordering and administering the forests of Goa. By taking the colonial governance of natural resources as its object, this paper takes inspiration from the large number of studies that have been dedicated to the Environmental History of Empires, particularly in the case of British India.

The purpose of this paper is not so much to deliver an original monograph on the subject matter at hand, but rather to take stock of historiographical production on the phenomenon of anti-Semitism in Portugal in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th; to submit a different interpretation from the predominant reading; to list and contextualise some examples which may help support the theory sustained. The paper assumes that also amongst us we can detect the marked presence of social Darwinian views, nationalist concerns, and anti-Semitic values and practices. One needs only recall that over three centuries, Portugal implemented systematically policies of destruction of its Jewish community and culture.

The paper examines three Uruguayan forest companies of wood and paper pulp sector with high capital investment, whose work processes have been modernized and achieved a relative improvement in working conditions. However, it still remains patterns of production and recruitment that come in strong contradiction with those changes. The outsourcing of work processes is associated with the presence of forms of hiring by productivity, which reproduces the conditions in which the physical burden of the day and the competition to achieve the performances required by the companies, exacerbate the difficulties in establishing efficient politics of risk management.

The article analyzes the time spent at work and the time spent at home, taking for granted the assumption that time is the raw material through which gender relations are expressed in social practices. Having the work of Norbert Elias as a starting point, the paper aims to reflect on working time in public and domestic spheres, from a relational perspective. The notions of configuration and interdependencies are articulated to the proposition of the sexual division of labor (Kergoat, 2009). The paper describes the outcomes of research on nursing teams in Brazil using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The centrality of domestic work permeates the lives of the female workers, demanding the management of complex relationships between the domestic and the professional spheres, with implications for health. The text highlights the need for research instruments which are sensitive to the sexual division of labor, in order to support discussions on social policies aiming at social reproduction, as proposed by Dedecca, Ribeiro and Ishii (2009) in the Brazilian context.

Using critical theory, this paper first confronts critically the relationship between education and performance in light of globalisation and its underlying neo‑‑ liberal ideology. This comparison reveals that there is a definite compatibility between them, but it is fully slanted towards efficiency logic and human capital production. Then, adopting a critical attitude, the paper questions this direction, in the name of the emancipation and citizenship prospects, which brought the school system reorganisation by democratic nation‑‑ states. The current choices have distorted these objectives and have redirected them towards utilitarian learnings and an increasingly therapeutic socialisation. Finally, the paper stresses the inseparability between the performance issue, the social equity issue and the education/teaching effectiveness issue in order to highlight the need for taking into account qualitative dimensions, which stem from the background and the pupils, so as to focus much more on learning processes, rather than on learning outcomes themselves.

Using several languages has become a norm for those who want to learn and work in the European Union. However, teaching for plurilingualism is also a challenge. The present paper first clarifies the notions of plurilingualism and multilingualism, then discusses the role of crosslinguistic similarity in language learning in the case of European languages. It also shows how lexical crosslinguistic similarity can be used in teaching typologically related and unrelated languages, and discusses the key factors in noticing such similarity. The research presented reports on examining and raising language awareness of Polish‑‑ English cognate vocabulary in the case of a group of Polish teenage learners of English. It presents the results of a small‑‑ scale study in quasi‑‑ experimental design, as well as qualitative research on the learners’ opinions and attitudes. Finally, the paper presents implications for language pedagogy and focuses on the fact that awareness raising may affect the learners’ plurilingual competence.

This paper aims to provide an overview of the written documents by Russian naval officers that include references to the Portuguese Colonial Empire. The study focuses on the 19th century, since during this period Russian ships accomplished frequent and important circumnavigation trips, in order to reinforce economic ties with its colonies in North America, as well as with other countries. It is important to highlight that this paper is far from being exhaustive, as it only cites a small part of the descriptions of Continental Portugal, Brazil, Madeira, Cape Verde, Azores and Madeira, made by Russian travellers. In addition, restrictions as to the paper’s length obliged us to select some references and leave others out.

Anchored in the works of Ivar Oddone, this paper tries to reconstruct a research path with particular utility for activating a new reflection on how to develop a work psychology centred on the workingman and on his experience. In an upfront and informal style, reflecting Oddone´s character and the “non-rituality” of the documents on which this paper is based, we will start at the first reflections and concepts through which we originally met Oddone: the rediscovery of workers´ experience and its importance for the transformation of work itself. From that, we will derive matters of method as well as Oddone´s proposals for experience construction and for the exploration of its transforming potential. In this regard the “instructions to a double” stand in a place of honour. The text will be developed around the concepts of “language”, “system” and “interface”, materialized in concrete situations on which Oddone´s team has been reflecting. Particular relevance will be given to his System of Concrete Information (SIC, in its original acronym), from which we will try to set some reflections and challenges elicited by Oddone´s works.

The prominence of the technological has a concrete impact on information tools, auxiliary to the perception of the real. This article focuses on the implications of this aspect in the field of contemporary artistic production, through Hesitant Hand, a work by Pakui Hardware. Hesitant Hand is used as a starting point for a reflection on automation and image, which in the case of Hesitant Hand, is informed by the automation process. This article tries to explain the implication of the image in the presented case study, by juxtaposing the automation process and the images of Hesitant Hand. Pakui Hardware’s work presents us with images that focus on the semantics of the image itself and portrays an ecosystem in flux. This paper argues that Hesitant Hand presents three distinct set of images and contributes to the ongoing debate concerned with the image by displaying images that are plural and polymorphic

This paper deals with constructions of the romantic love ideal as narrative formulae inscribed in cultural products, focusing on «comic» as a médium hardly attended in Visual Studies. We look this narrative’s doublé nature as a union of the content (story) and the traditional form (discourse) in the discipline of audio- visual narrative. In this direction, we will review some of the critical texts dealing with both the romantic ideal of which consumers participate as well as the use of visual images employed in this stories, as a way of tentatively posing a narrative canon. Through the critical analysis of The Prince and The Dressmaker (2018) by Jen Wang, we will explore the subversive strategies of the romantic canon in order to, ultimately, concretize these aspects in a podagogical model concerned with new roles and construction mechanisms of romantic love and gender roles in this type of story. This analysis will show, beside his loyalty to classic amorous schemes, Wang’s innovations in the representation of characters and their narrative roles

The present paper aims to analyse some of the discourses and experiences on educational cinema during the first half of the 20th century in Portugal. The cinepedagogia («cinepedagogy») – as it is named in historical sources – embodies pedagogic activities that benefit from moving images. The use of cinema for education is discoursed since the first decades of the cinematograph, however, it was from the 1920s onwards that the discussion on educational cinema truly developed, and it lasted vividly until the 1950s. Along with a historical contextualisation of this movement in Portugal, the city of Porto was defined as a case study, for instigating the association of cinema and education prematurely and successfully. This research takes advantage of sources that usually aren’t used in the analysis of this phenomenon in Portugal: specialized publications in cinema, such as magazines and newspapers. These sources demonstrate the discussion regarding educational cinema and publicise the concretizations in this field. Therefore, the review of the Portuguese cinematographic magazines, along with bibliographic resources, was fundamental for this study.

This paper deals with the analysis of the architectural evidence linked to the earliest defined occupation phases in western asturian hillforts. We realise that there is no known parallelisms to the period’s most representative archaeological structures, and are equally aware of the difficulty to assign the whole recovered evidence to the 9th-8th centuries BC. Therefore, and waiting for future new data which would help to solve the question, we propose to locate the emergence of the hillforts settlement in this area within a more expanded and later time, between the 8th and the 5th centuries BC.

This paper aims at presenting and analyzing the work for the instruction of written Portuguese, in the initial phase of literacy, for deaf students in the formal basic educational context, such as: Ideas to teach Portuguese to deaf students (Quadros and Schmiedt 2006). Qualitative assessments are performed, considering what the work conceptually presents and in what forms it proposes an implementation of the teaching of the Portuguese language regarding initial reading. The results indicate that, although this is an important work dedicated to one of the central aspects for promoting student school achievement: literacy, there is no evidence to allow teachers to guide themselves on how to conceive reading literacy, nor how to proceed in order to deaf students to read.

This paper examines the lexical repertoires in Spanish and Portuguese that are included in two conversation manuals: O espanhol tal qual se fala. Novissima guía de conversação com a pronúncia figura, work elaborated for the Portuguese who want to learn Spanish; and the Manual de la conversación y del estilo epistolar, for the acquisition of Portuguese by Spaniards. The vocabularies inserted in both works are thematically grouped: they constitute nomenclatures, repertoires that are very common within the tradition of teaching and learning foreign languages. In addition, these vocabularies are complemented with a column dedicated to the pronunciation of the target language, in a similar way to other contemporaneous texts. Therefore, the analysed works are not original, but they are a good sample of the materials used throughout the history of foreign language teaching.

The building sector is clearly undergoing the digital transition with the willingness to move from paper to absolute digital. Our research aims to study the transformation of the activity of “lifting of reservations” of a construction site manager using a business application. To grasp the complexity of this activity, a systemic approach seemed relevant and we proposed a theoretical articulation between the situated and incorporated dimensions of the activity and its historical-cultural development. We carried out an ethnographic investigation, for six months, in immersion on a construction site, in the form of an observant participation along with a shadowing observation. The main results indicate that the activity of "lifting of reservations" is part of a culture marked by the importance of the exchanges and the body. The business application transforms this activity which is sometimes strengthened, and other times thwarted. The construction site managers must adapt the use of the application to the site situations.

In this paper, we address the question of possible conceptual ways of thinking about organizations in the making. We begin by introducing the concept of border, which seems heuristic to us, to define organizational development as crossing borders. We then propose to consider the border crossing from an intrinsic point of view by adopting a transitional perspective. To address these transitional phenomena, we articulate two conceptual ergonomics frameworks: the course of action and the instrumental approach. Through two contrasting researches from the point of view of the fields of activity (travel narratives and a process of treating a customer demand in the energy field), we confront the ways to hybridize these two theoretical frameworks conceptually, methodologically and empirically. We highlight what results from this hybridization: the so-called transitional instruments that confer continuity to different scales. Finally, we discuss the perspectives opened by a transitional approach to think about organizational genesis.

A recurring problem in longitudinal research on human activity is the lack of articulation between qualitative analytical models and quantitative synthetic models of the dynamic evolution. This absence creates difficulties in justifying the choices of analysis and synthesis and prevents a deductive approach to longitudinal dynamics. Within the framework of a 3-year longitudinal empirical and technological research on appropriation, this paper discusses the conditions of production and the usefulness of a quantitative synthetic model of the longitudinal complexity of individual activity, in conjunction with a qualitative analytical method. More than the mobilization of a single, pre-data model, the modeling work involves an active articulation between analytical model-methods (classical in activity analysis) and synthetic model-methods. We discuss the contributions and limits of this work with respect to activity analysis in French-language ergonomics and the complexity sciences more often mobilized in human factors.

The aim of this paper, based on a study conducted with a 26-student class engaged in an annual “Arctic Kayak” project, is twofold. The first challenge is to present the dynamics of joint construction, going back and forth between observation analysis and theoretical object. The second is to introduce two new concepts that might benefit the course-of-action research program. The first, “story of experience”, helps designing and conducting observation research to collect and analyze the experience of large groups of actors over a relatively long period of time. Such stories offer a condensed description of students’ individual experiences during the kayak classes, providing multiple angles of analysis. The second concept is “action field”, which is a subset of the “course-of-experience” theoretical object. For an actor and a given unit of time, this corresponds to all elements of its environment to which it attributes characteristics. Analysis of the students’ action fields allowed us to identify evolutions and transformations which are typical of the students’ perceptual judgments during classes. These results clarify the hypothesis of the three processes (in-situation, in-corporation, in-culturation) of appropriation proposed by Theureau.

This paper presents a theoretical reflection to study the processes of work learning and development proceeding in the training environments which intentionally bring together the trainees to other people’s world. These environments are built up from movies of real work or from observations in simulating and/or supported practices situations. These environments seek articulation between mimetic, reflexive, projective and ludic processes. Over the 2011-2020 period, three studies regarding video-training and/or simulation situations in various professional fields (teachers, midwifes and carriage drivers training) have been led within the framework of the empirical research program known as the “Course of action” or “enactive cultural anthropology”. A theoretical modelling has been developed to account for these silent and complex social mimesis processes of linking agents experiences (immersion, imitation, emulation, “acting similarly to”, representation, anticipation). This theoretical reduction based on the hexatomy of the course of action unit opens up some methodological paths to both better comprehend the implicit dimensions of body and sensitive activity, very active in this relation to other’s world, and to better understand the performativity conditions of action (mimesis as a creative remake vs mimesis as a copy of reality).

This paper aims to present the methodological process adopted in a doctoral research (Magalhães, 2019) carried out with two language teacher educators at the State University of Ceará (UECE). In order to (co)construct the discursive corpus, the researcher resorted to the selected dialogues produced during the theoretical-methodological process of self-confrontation, as well as to a 10-hour training course carried out based on the assumptions of the clinical and ergonomic activity approaches. The chosen methodology allowed some reflection on how corpus construction can be made, along with its protagonists, in an interventional research based on the principles of Bakhtinian dialogism and Vigotskian cultural-historical theory of human development. We conclude that, to be detected, a phenomenon needs to be reflected within a socio-historical dynamic; also, the active and constant participation of each professional in a self-confrontational (co)analytical process would enable a greater understanding of work activity, mobilizing its recreation and/or its transformation.

Clinical Sociology is characterized by the commitment of researchers to the construction of actions contrary to the logic of culpability and the individualization of the existential contradictions in the world of work. In this context, the purpose of this study is to understand the methodological and technical supports of two research and intervention devices in Clinical Sociology (the Implication and Research Groups and the Organidrame), in order to explore them as instruments for analyzing the conflicts experienced at work in our society. Through a qualitative, transversal, and descriptive approach, this study is part of the in-service research modality, starting from the production of knowledge from the professional activities developed by the researchers. The paper concludes with an explanation of the differentials of the devices, linked to the possibilities of working collectively on family, social and existential phenomena, but also political, ideological, and managerial ones engendered in the subjects’ work contexts.

Personal care workers (PCW) are responsible for all nursing assistance activities for residents in geriatric organizations. The experienced PCW have two characteristics. On the one hand, they use informal know-how that are essential for achieving the prescribed objectives. At the same time, they constitute a very fragile job category, particularly in terms of occupational health. The objective of our paper is to present the point of view of these workers on the factors relating to the organization of work which cause this fragility. We carried out qualitative research consisting of interviews with twenty experienced PCW with more than ten years of experience, working in four Long-Term Care Centers (CHSLDs) in Quebec (Canada). The three main factors identified by the professionals are : The intensification of the workload causes difficulty in carrying out the prescribed work ; the work activity becomes more complex ; and the distance of the immediate manager prevents collective discussions on the quality of the activities.

This paper offers a reflection about the "taboo" of "seduction work", which appeared during a work investigation on psychodynamic with a group of actors. This has indeed revealed that an important part of an actor/actress real work consists in "seducing" the director, then the audience. At the end of the investigation, part of the collective of actors temporarily refuses to share the resulting report with the director. The argument was the fear of "killing the magic, killing desire" by disclosing this "work of seduction”. Therefore, after a first moment of presentation and methodological discussion, which will put into perspective the clinical elements emerging from the investigation, such elements, and their links with the organization of work, will be exposed. We will then question the meaning of this “taboo” related to the specific difficulties of an actor/actress’s work as it appears in this investigation and to the sufferings they face when performing the seduction work.

Starting from a research in psychodynamics of work, the paper aims to explain the consequences of the new forms of work organization on the activity of deliberation and cooperation of workers, on the one hand, and on their possibilities of development and action, on the other hand. It is particularly concerned with showing how the denial of reality and living labor, supported by managerial transformations in the organization of work, disqualifies the language of activity emanated from workers and bars access to effective work, thus "preventing” deliberation on living labor. Finally, it questions the necessary conditions for a reinstatement of deliberation, so that it takes precedence over a thought invaded by the social imaginary and that can open the way to the challenge of symbolic domination and to the resistance to governance by numbers.

In this paper we present the thin-walled ware found in Castro de Monte Mozinho, in the excavations campaigns dated from 1974 to 1998. We identify all the sectors covered by the work and we sum up the stratigraphic contexts in which the findings of the thin-walled ware occurred, highlighting their relation to other contemporary materials. We then present the productions according to their type and fabric, having been able to identify two distinct ones. On the one hand, we verified the existence of Italic thin-walled ware manufactured both in the Central North region (Etruscan coast) and in the Central Western area of the Po Valley and, on the other hand, and in a more significant number, we recognised peninsular productions from the Baetica and Lusitania, with emphasis to the ones produced in Mérida.

After a comparison of the dates engraved on some flagstones from the church of the Monastery of S. Salvador de Vilar de Frades (Barcelos, Portugal) with the known dates of death of the persons that should be buried in such graves, it is possible to verify an inconsistency between each pair of dates. In this paper we try to understand this inconsistency advancing the hypothesis that this particular kind of tumular inscriptions served more as a way to identify the ownership of the grave than to identify the persons buried in there.

The paper aims at problematizing the process of contemporary work transformations in Chile. Three experiences are described from a clinical point of view (pedagogical, psychosocial and socio-analytical) in different work scenarios. Then, it reflects on the relevance of the clinical approach as a form of intervention, which contributes to the understanding of the workers’ subjective processes, in their individual, group and political dimensions.

This year, spaces to exchange practices have been created by and for young ergonomics practitioners in Peru. This initiative stems from the observation that the ergonomist is an operator as any another, and that as such it is necessary to discuss the daily action in order to advance and build tomorrow’s practice. If these spaces are recent in Peru, they exist for more than 5 years in France and are proposed by the Committee “Jeunes Pratiques en Réflexion” from the French Speaking Ergonomics Society (SELF). In this paper, we propose to tell their genesis, their functioning and the challenges of their development.

Healthcare work in extreme situations is the guiding principle of this paper, which investigates the activity of workers in the NGO Doctors Without Borders, seeking to understand the uses of self in the confrontation with the reality of healthcare work, help and lifesaving. The challenges posed by complex contexts make this work more demanding, exposing the vulnerability of patients, workers and organizations, but also their capacity to confront and overcome difficulties. Schwartz’s ergological perspective, the Psychodynamics of Work and Canguilhem’s conception of health provide the theoretical-methodological direction to the qualitative research that used interviews as well as visits to MSF Operational Centers. The results show a challenging activity, where there is desire, institutional protection and professional appreciation ; but also strain and the pressure for a “normal” life ; conflicts of values, and the relevance of cooperation for the preservation of the sense of work in humanitarian care.

The paper briefly reconstructs the perspectives of approach to the relationship between health and work that contribute to understanding the problem of occupational health in Argentina. In the discussion, their main assumptions and orientations are considered in a stylized way ; subsequently, contributions from the work clinic are considered, discussing some principles that guide these interventions, their scope and challenges. The analysis is positioned in the work clinic -which is just emergent in Argentina- highlighting the contributions that differentiate it from predominant approaches, both at the basic proposals and at its methodological derivations. As a closing, some challenges of the work clinic in our disciplinary field are outlined ; if assumed, they will enrich the debates and current practices of psychology about the tensions that are finding expression in the health area at current work scenarios.

The paper aims at communicating the origin and evolution of the application of psychological science to the multidisciplinary field of occupational health in Cuba. Several factors are taken into account in this process : the social and socio-labor context, with a relatively extensive exposure, given the uniqueness of the Cuban social system. The trajectory of occupational health in the country and its current critical situation. The contributions of the professional practice of psychologists in work scenarios, which gave rise to occupational health psychology as a line of work in research, teaching and professional practice. It emphasizes the need to develop theoretical and methodological work in this area from a psychodynamic point of view, which takes subjectivity into account, for which the cultural historical approach of L. S. Vygotsky is proposed.

This paper aims at exploring a methodological instrument – the accident journey charts –, depicting their structure and the challenges and potential related to their use. The accident journey charts were designed under the scope of a research which focused on the analysis of the circumstances and consequences the work accidents have on the individuals and on the back-to-work process. Additionally, the accident journey charts took an exploratory role in looking at processes of reconstruction of experiences after a work accident, focusing on the institutional path the injured people had to follow. Their use, within the study, was determinant to reveal and depict the paths and journeys of the injured workers after an accident, through the temporal reconstruction of a story and a health event – the accident. It also contributed to a better understanding of the accident’s impact on the injured workers’ life (on the institutional path, on the interactions that took place, and on the feelings and emotions they have been through).

This paper discusses the obstacles the injured workers have to face upon their return to work after the accident. Two studies developed in Portugal support the analysis and the reflection on this issue. One of the studies is the outcome of a request from a company settled in the North of Portugal involving the workers with medical restrains to perform their usual work. The order consisted in an intervention to define an alternative work context. The other study, ordered by the Associação Nacional dos Deficientes e Sinistrados do Trabalho [National Association of Disabled Workers Injured On-the-job], aimed at depicting the workers’ post-accident paths from different activity sectors. Three main categories of obstacles emerge from the findings, namely, when the workers return to the same function with no prior analysis and planning; when the content of the job is assigned without taking the workers’ opinion into account; and when the return neglects the need for the collective work to be reorganized. The concept of the work accident as a turning point in the professional path is reinforced. The implications are always unique and the analysis to that singularity makes it possible to sign specific intervention proposals beyond the individual paths.

This article discusses the way in which the speakers and the linguistic community face the phenomena of linguistic change. From an empirical and normative perspective, the traditional way of speaking is considered correct and the new forms are considered errors, a deviation from what is considered good linguistic use. However, this definition of «error» in language is also associated with parameters of social, cultural and geographical variation. The paper also briefly mentions how linguistic change has been analysed in the context of several currents of linguistics. Finally, some cases of innovation in current Portuguese are examined, innovations which are manifested in pronunciation, but also in new grammatical and lexical uses. Finally, it is considered that an error as a deviation from a previous, traditional norm is an unmistakable sign of linguistic change.