Photo workshop as a device for analyzing garbage collection activity

Abstract

The article presents an experience of analysis of the activities of the garbage collection worker in a city, based on the device of the Photo Workshop and having as a theoretical reference the Clinic of the Activity. The focus of the study is on the analysis of the activity of workers who work as garbage collectors in a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The Photo Workshop was chosen as a research and intervention device in order to use the images as triggers for the co-analysis of the work, giving rise to a collective reality, present in all work activities. The purpose of this device is to trigger, from the production of images, questions and reflections about the work activity. In this sense, through the results collected from this research and intervention, it became evident that the Photo Workshop can be a possible device in the development of the workers’ power to act, thus enabling collective exchanges, with the professional genre being a decisive instrument of the workers’ power to act. involved.

Keywords:
activity clinic; photo workshop; garbage collectors