BookRodolfo Andrade de Gouveia Vilela [and more], editors.
Summary: This book presents an innovative method to improve workers health and prevent occupational accidents: the Change Laboratory, a method of formative intervention that enables the organization's participants to identify, with the help of facilitators, the historical and systemic origins of work processes anomalies (environmental problems, work safety and health, quality and productivity problems, problems related to labor relations, etc). It proposes a cycle of expansive learning that evolves from recognition of the problem to the visualization, testing and consolidation of solutions. The Change Laboratory method was first developed by Finnish researchers in the 90s and has been improved since then by an international network of research centers in ten countries. This volume presents the results of the experiences conducted by the Brazilian research group to apply the methodology to workers health programs. It adopts a translational approach and seeks to elaborate a method of intervention that goes beyond the mere diagnostics to present solutions to concrete problems based on systematized and participatory research. Collaborative Development for the Prevention of Occupational Accidents and Diseases - Change Laboratory in Worker's Health will be of interest to both researchers and professionals engaged in developing intervention programs to improve safety and health at work, such as occupational health professionals and researchers, organizational psychologists, safety engineers and public agents working with workers health regulations. The book will also be of interest to occupational health students interested in learning how the Change Laboratory method can be applied to this field of research and activity.
Contents:
Intro; Foreword; Change Laboratories Facing the Future; References; Foreword; In the Current Economy, Preserving Occupational Safety and Health Calls for Expansive Learning; References; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Authors; Abbreviations; From the Portuguese; Part I: Introduction;
Chapter 1: Workers' Health: From Diagnosis to Formative Intervention; 1.1 Brief History of Our Group and Reasons to Study Interventions on Workers' Health; 1.2 Brief History of the Conceptual Evolution of Workers' Health in Brazil 1.3 From Diagnosis to Intervention, the Search for Systemic and Formative Intervention MethodsReferences;
Chapter 2: The Theoretical and Methodological Basis of the Change Laboratory; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Cultural Mediation of Human Actions and Agency; 2.3 An Activity as Unit of Analysis; 2.4 Networks of Activity Systems; 2.5 Contradictions as a Force of Development; 2.6 Expansive Learning; 2.7 The Double Stimulation Method; 2.8 Methodological Model of the Change Laboratory; 2.9 Planning, Tools, and Content of the Change Laboratory Sessions; 2.10 Variations of the Change Laboratory 2.11 The Expected Outcomes of a CLReferences;
Chapter 3: Work and Health and Contemporary Capitalism: Economics as a Social Disease; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Work in the Twentieth Century: Classic Forms of Work Organization and Their Limits; 3.3 "Immaterial" Work: Automation, Innovation, Services; 3.3.1 Mental Suffering in the CPI; 3.3.2 The Pressure of Innovation; 3.4 Financialization of Productive Systems and Its Consequences to Work; 3.5 It Is Possible to Come Out of the Market: Towards a New Economy and Regulation of Production-Consumption-Health; 3.6 Final Remarks; References Part II: Change Laboratories
Chapter 4: Is it Possible to Run a Change Laboratory if the Company Does not Recognize its Demand as Legitimate?; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Research Context and Negotiation Process; 4.3 The Process of Collecting Ethnographic Data; 4.4 Main Difficulties of the Ethnographic Data Collection Phase; 4.5 Formative Workshops as a Strategy to Deal with Difficulties During Fieldwork; 4.6 Final Considerations; References;
Chapter 5: One Activity, Two Objects: Preparatory Phase of Change Laboratory at an Assistance Center for Adolescents in Conflict with the Law; 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Social Construction of the Demand5.3 Negotiation for Workplace Access; 5.4 Data Collection Methods; 5.5 Results and Discussion of the Pre-diagnosis; 5.6 Final Considerations; References;
Chapter 6: Conflict in a Formative Intervention at a Public School: Lessons for Researcher-Interventionists; 6.1 Brazilian Educational System and Context of Intervention; 6.2 Making Conflicts Visible: From Negotiation to Testing New Ideas; 6.2.1 Development and Negotiation of the Demand; 6.2.2 Preparing Intervention and Collecting Ethnographical Data; 6.2.3 Mapping the Situation: What Is the Problem?; 6.2.4 Analysis of Exhaustion and the Different Points of View of Teachers and Local Managers.