This study is the result of a joint reflection by the authors starting from different experiences of contact with women and men workers suffering of RSI. These contacts were made possible by the attendance of these workers forwarded by the Centros de Referência de Saúde do Trabalhador (Worker's Health Reference Centers) to the out-patient services of UNIFESP/EPM, by the authors ongoing research with women and men workers of Hospital São Paulo and by the medical practice of the Chemical, Plastic, Cosmetics and Similar Industry Workers Union of the State of São Paulo. The guiding thread of the work is the inclusion of the category of gender to understand the different impacts of RSI in the lives of women and men in the world of the new technologies that create new workers, new diseases and new excluded people.This approach has revealed the forgotten field of subjectivity in the lives of these workers.The study pointed out that to acquiring RSI is bringing the company and its productive processes into the home, where the feelings of guilt are reinforced, with implications and interferences in the daily affective relationships.
workers; gender; fear; subjectivity; disease; exclusion; guilt