THE PUBLIC AND SOCIAL INVISIBILITY OF WORKERS: A LITERATURE REVIEW ABOUT INVISIBLE WORK IN SOCIETY

Abstract

Public invisibility is a psychosocial phenomenon characterized by the disappearance of a subject amid others and affects the lives of many workers in their positions held, being them devalued in our today's society. These work activities, which are often relegated, despised or unnoticed, are the invisible workers. However, the issue of invisibility is still a little-known theme, but which in most cases is part of the daily life of groups of workers who suffer given the disregard and ways of legitimation and naturalization of inequalities. The Objective of this study was to investigate which are the invisible work in society and which are the constituent characteristics of this work and its workers. The methodology used in this study was a literature review between the years 2016 to 2021, using journals and indexed databases with relevant work to the theme. Positions of manual work among other work related to cleaning and collection of recyclable materials are considered inferior, as well as those who occupy them. Invisibility affects workers from an impoverished social class, where issues such as forms of inequalities and exclusion processes are a naturalized reality, which blames the subject who suffers.