As trabalhadoras em empresas pesqueiras: representações sociais sobre saúde e percepções corporais - RELAT

The industries of fish located in the coast north of Santa Catarina,Brazil, present units that dedicates to the capture, the proces sing, thefreezing and the distribution of this food. The present multidisciplineboarding deals with the insertion of the woman in the fishing industry, inparticular of that they work in the improvement of the fish, regionallyidentified as “manipulator of fished”. The exploratory study with ethno-graphic characters made possible to confer the process of manipulationof the fished, the work conditions, its social relations, as well as its im-pacts in the body and the health of these women. The present researchallowed to evidence that the work of the “manipulators of fished” de -mand bigger attention of public policy, that does not benefit them withpublic politics and it does not exert its fiscalization power on the workconditions.