WORK IN SOCIO-EDUCATION POLICY: BETWEEN TENSIONS, CONFLICTS AND POTENTIALITIES Pollyanna Labeta Iack
Introduction It is in this context of necrocapitalism, structural unemployment, deregulation of rights, a drastic reduction in funding and the precariousness of public and social policies, an increase in violence, the criminalization of poverty and the militarization of public policies that a mass of workers experience grievances in mental health (MIRANDA, 2021; ABRAMIDES, 2021). In times of a covid-19 pandemic, reality has become more complex. The fear of contracting the disease and transmitting it to family members, co-workers and users is a torment. Data from the Coronavirus1 Panel, updated on 12/07/2021, indicate that in Brazil 616,018 thousand people died as a result of the disease. According to information from the Bulletin of Conjuncture n. 29 – June/July 2021 of the Inter-union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (Dieese), the pandemic has deepened social inequality, increasing the number of people in extreme poverty, which is equivalent to the entry of 1.2 million people in this category (9% increase); the number of less educated employed persons decreased by 10.4%, equivalent to less than 7.5 million people; inflation is 1. Available at: < https://covid.saude.gov.br/>. Access in: Dec. 2021.
