This article analyzes how moral harassment was introduced in the lives of workers with Repetitive Strain Injuries/Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (RSI/WRMD). In 2007, twenty workers with RSI/WRMD from a footwear industry in Campina Grande- Paraiba, Brazil took part in a study conducted by means of semistructured interviews and content analysis. The results presented a panorama of interpersonal and organizational moral harassment that is clearly shown in the workers' illness reports and in their trajectories searching for help for their health problems. Interpersonal and organizational moral harassment is evidenced by humiliation, exclusion and pressure received at workplace. It is shaped as coercion, subversion, blackmailing and demotion. To avoid unemployment, some workers would rather resign, others would bear pain, which could exceed their limits. The logic of the production of moral and organizational harassment destroys and prevents workes from structuring ways of confronting the problem collectively.
mental health and work; moral harassment; worker's health; work management