O espaço experiencial da dor: sofrimento, corpo e inscrição social depois do acidente de trabalho entre trabalhadores industriais portugueses

Abstract

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 labour accidents. Based on an extensive survey to a national sample of injured workers and in-depth interviews, the paper identifies the major characteristics of the workers' lived experience of physical and social pain 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 labour accidents, the paper arguments that social inscriptions and institutional devices have a major role in the definition of the suffering experienced by the surveyed injured workers.