Life experiences as workers in poultry agribusiness of users of mental health care

ABSTRACT This study aimed at revealing the poultry agribusiness workers' perceptions, who got mentally ill, about the impacts of their work activities. Data obtained during the interviews were grouped into categories as: a) labor organization in the poultry agribusiness, b) worker's physical and psychological changes, c) use of psychoactive drugs to stand the work, d) an opportunity to improve the school level and produce more, e) fear of being fired and the lack of recognition, f) dealing with prejudice of mental illness and g) sexual and moral harassment. Workers are submitted to the management model that associates Taylorism, Fordism and Toyotism, which impairs their physical and mental health.