THE STRUGGLE OF NURSING WORKERS IN ALAGOAS IN THE BRAZILIAN HEALTH REFORM MOVEMENT (1975 – 1988)
History of Nursing; Health Care Reform; Public Health; Social Organization; Social Control, Informal.
This study has as its object the struggle of nursing workers in Alagoas within the Brazilian Health Reform Movement, in the period between 1975 and 1988. Since the ideological conception of the Brazilian health reform, social movements have been engines for the construction of the counter-hegemony front to the solutions imposed by each current government. In the health sector, some workers joined the Brazilian Health Reform Movement which, in addition to fighting for the implementation of the Unified Health System, also fought for better working conditions and wages. Objectives: To analyze the participation of nursing workers from Alagoas in the Brazilian Health Reform Movement. Methodological Course: Qualitative study of a historical-social nature. The sections were: geographical, the state of Alagoas; temporal and social period from 1975 to 1988. The historical sources were oral documents resulting from the transcription of interviews and writings belonging to the Union of Nursing Assistants and Technicians of Alagoas, the Union of Nurses of Alagoas, the Brazilian Nursing Association Alagoas section and the Central Única dos Trabalhadores in Alagoas, which were subjected to internal and external critical analysis. The resulting information is being triangulated with the literature accessed and with the theoretical framework that guides the writing of the new history, in light of Antônio Gramsci's concepts, namely: class, struggle, hegemony, culture and civil society.