The social sciences of labor have face great challenges to explore labor; however, in this disciplines the study of the industrial model has prevailed, while the analysis of sectors of services as productive spaces has been delayed. Laborers in governmental institutions, not only work the "shapes" and "substances", but also the very human survival and reproduction. The present article is aimed at giving an account of the work of men working on men, specifically on laborers who work on other laborers who undergo social disaggregation, exclusion, and ghettification. The results from our qualitative research show the participation in the production of knowledge of the very laborers, rehearsing a co-productive dialogue in hospital and with laborers from recovered enterprises. This dialogical construction allows exploring the dimensions of alienation, power and the subjectivity in the social processes of labor.

Las ciencias sociales del trabajo han afrontado grandes desafíos para explorar éste; sin embargo, en estas disciplinas ha primado el estudio del modelo industrial, quedando rezagados los análisis referidos a los sectores de servicios como espacios productivos. Los trabajadores en las instituciones gubernamentales no sólo trabajan las "formas" y las "sustancias", sino también la propia sobrevivencia y reproducción humana. El presente artículo da cuenta del trabajo de hombres trabajando sobre hombres, específicamente sobre trabajadores que trabajan sobre otros trabajadores que se encuentran en proceso de desagregación, exclusión y guetificación social. Los resultados de nuestra investigación cualitativa muestran la participación en la producción de conocimiento de los propios trabajadores, ensayando un diálogo coproductivo en el hospital y con trabajadores de empresas recuperadas. Esta construcción dialógica permite explorar las dimensiones de la alienación, el poder y la subjetividad en los procesos sociales de trabajo.

O artigo propõe uma leitura sistêmica do trabalho e dos processos de trabalho institucionais que intervêm nos esquemas de exclusão social. Centra-se especificamente no processo de trabalho institucional dentro de um hospital de saúde mental, propondo uma analogia com os das fábricas. O trabalho de enfermaria e sua história possibilitam, como modelo paradigmático, a releitura da história do trabalhador em geral, uma vez que nessa área eles atuam sobre os companheiros que se encontram em processo de degradação social. As dimensões abordadas a partir desse eixo são: a intervenção institucional e os processos de trabalho; o macroprocesso de exclusão/extinção social; e a epistemologia da co-produção de pesquisa para a análise dos processos sociais de trabalho. Nossa abordagem gnosiológica baseia-se na pesquisa co-produzida, a qual se constitui de dispositivos de intervenção transdisciplinares, entrevistas semi-estruturadas, histórias de vida focalizadas, observações de campo, relatos de co-pesquisadores trabalhadores e intertextos.

The article proposes a systematic reading of work and the institutional work processes involved in patterns of social exclusion. It specifically centres on the institutional work process in a mental health hospital, proposing an analogy with the process of factory work. As a paradigmatic model, nursing work and its history enable a re-reading of the history of workers in general, since in this area workers are dealing first-hand with comrades who find themselves in a process of social degradation. The dimensions approached from this angle include: institutional intervention and work processes; the macro-processes of social exclusion/extinction; the epistemology and co-production of research for the analysis of the social processes of work. Our gnosological approach is based on co-produced research, formed by transdisciplinary intervention devices, semi-structured interviews, focused life histories, field observations, accounts from co-researcher workers and intertexts.