Banca de DEFESA: NATALIA ALVES OLIVEIRA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : NATALIA ALVES OLIVEIRA
DATE: 26/11/2020
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Online, por meio de videoconferência
TITLE:

Arrested or Dead: women's labor in drug trafficking

KEY WORDS:

Drug Reafficking; Work Clinics; Sexual Division of Labor; Female Work

PAGES: 128
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Administração
SUMMARY:

This research aims to understand the role of women's work in drug trafficking. With the purpose of construe lore from the dialogue between social and subjective knowledge as well as understanding the relationships between work and subjectivity, psychosociology was used as a theoretical contribution and the trajectory of working life as a methodological resource. The interviews were conducted with two women indicated by the “Grupo de Amigos e Familiares de Pessoas em Privação de Liberdade” [name of the non-profit organization that aims to mobilize and organize friends and family of people deprived of liberty in order to guarantee their rights]. Considering that the commercialization of illicit psychotropic substances occurs as a continuous activity and that involves quality control, price regulation, charge and payment, salary, labor relations, hierarchical network and market conquest – resembling a formal retail trade, it is conceived that the ex-drug dealers interviewed were responsible for managing a complex distribution chain, acting as decision makers in search of opportunities to maximize profits and reduce risks – since both occupied a hierarchical position that went beyond the operational in that organization. Therefore, this work seeks to understand management and decision-making processes in an illicit organization as well as raising questions about the conditions and processes of meaning of female labor in drug trafficking. Through the reports it was possible to show the agility and adaptability of the management of this activity, factors that are of paramount importance to the functioning of an illicit organization because there are ever new methods to combat their activities. Furthermore, considering that drug trafficking operates as a neoliberal market, the study showed how autonomy in decision-making is no longer a tool for the emancipation of the subject but an instrument for deterioration of labor. Lastly, the reports showed that women submit themselves more intensely to factors that put them vulnerable to mental illness in order to obtain validation of the environment and self-worth through the value of their work.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - LUDMILA DE VASCONCELOS MACHADO GUIMARAES
Interno - ADMARDO BONIFACIO GOMES JUNIOR
Externo à Instituição - VANESSA ANDRADE DE BARROS - UFMG
Externa à Instituição - CAROLYNE REIS BARROS - UFMG