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Work and politics in the era of liquid modernity: meanings attributed by female nurses
Midian Oliveira Dias1, Juliana Amaral Prata1, Ana Beatriz Azevedo Queiroz2
1Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-Infantil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Objective:
To understand the meanings attributed by female nurses to work and politics in liquid modernity.
Method:
This qualitative study involved 46 graduate faculty students of a public state university in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Data were collected from April to November 2021 through semi-structured individual interviews and submitted to IRaMuTeQ®.
Results:
Similarity analysis was structured around two central axes ("work" and "politics"), surrounded by peripheral words. The first emerged as a means of subsistence. The second is seen as yet another duty amid the intensification of work, which distances female nurses from political activity, even though they recognize its importance in achieving collective benefits. Regarding professional associations, they view them as a financial investment with little or no concrete return.
Conclusion:
Concerning liquid modernity, there is an emptying of meanings associated with work concomitant with the devaluation of class entities, culminating in the removal of female nurses from political action.
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