Entre rupturas e continuidades: um estudo sobre o processo de ressignificação do emprego bancário público

Abstract

The object of this study is the perceptions and meanings attributed to the public bank employment by employees of a federal bank. The first step was to analyze the productive restructuring process on the sector and its implications on work and workers. The second step was to try to characterize the major facts and changes occurred in the bank during the 1990s and early 2000s, via analysis of documents available at Centro de Documentação do Sindicato dos Bancários de São Paulo (documentation department of to the bank workers union in São Paulo). Finally, semi-structured interviews were carried out with two groups of workers; group one consisted of ten clerks; group two consisted of ten bank technicians, representing the new generation of bank workers, hired after the 1998 recruitment process. As a result, we found that, for the new generation of bank workers, the perception originated from a synchronic comparison, where the job appears as an alternative to temporary, unstable or flexible work experiences, seems to shape the perception originated from a diachronic analysis, which evinces the historical losses of bank work. The stability, now dissociated from status and salary, has been perceived as the central point in the opinion of clerks and banc technician when they define this job.