Sofrimento Social e Teoria Crítica no Precariado.

In spite of the difficulty of engaging in social criticism through the category of social suffering, the present article aims at undertaking an investigation on the possibility of resuming such criticism from political references linked to suffering. One of the current ways to understand the causes and consequences of individual suffering which becomes social because it is caused by the political, social and economic organisation, is to analyse the category of the precariat. The world of work has much to tell us about the contemporary societies in which we live. The analysis of the changes which have occurred over the last few years in the world of work and which were caused by the logic of late capitalism, can show us the material causes of a type of suffering which is no longer subjective or psychological and becomes a social issue. Through the elaboration of social suffering in the world of precarious work, it is possible to understand the mechanism in which society works and to point out the woes which that type of suffered life entails for the individuals and for society as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]