Human rights, labor, and social recognition

an analysis of the work of people with disabilities in public universities in light of Karl Marx and Christophe Dejours

Abstract

This article analyzes the right to work for people with disabilities in Brazilian public universities from the perspective of social recognition. Despite normative advances and the implementation of accessibility policies, there is a contradiction between formal inclusion and the reality of labor relations, which are marked by productivist and ableist logics. Methodologically, the investigation is characterized as exploratory qualitative research, grounded in the dialectical method and bibliographic and documentary analysis. The theoretical framework articulates the ontology of social being and the concept of alienation in Karl Marx with Christophe Dejours' psychodynamics of work, highlighting how the organization of academic work can produce invisibility and ethical suffering. The results indicate that institutional accessibility, when restricted to architectural and welfare dimensions, is insufficient to guarantee the dignity and mental health of employees. It is concluded that the effective realization of the right to work requires a structural transformation that transcends the fulfillment of quotas, incorporating diversity as a principle of personnel management and revising normative performance criteria in favor of an organizational culture based on equity and substantive recognition.