This article intends to display nuances of the world of work. It argues the work as an historical construction and the current context in the management of its processes. Firstly, it aims to understand the worker and their relations with the work processes, based on the concepts of ergology as a perspective of analysis. In order to reach this objective, it is presented a case study of a company in the area of manufacture of flexible pipes for oil exploration. Data were collected through documentary research, with the use of participant observation, meetings of validation and analysis of the data, as well as semi-structured interviews. Work situations and its complexities had been analyzed, getting the agreement on important aspects related to how workers belonging to the analyzed sector interact between them as well as with work situations, understanding the uses of itself of the same ones in the accomplishment of its activities.
Work; Management; Uses of itself; Ergology
