Resumo:
This study intends to analyze the teaching work process in the context of Higher Education
Institutions, having as its main subject the substitute teachers of the courses implemented
through REUNI at the Federal University of Bahia. We start from considerations about the
transformations of work in contemporary capitalism, which has at the center of its dynamics
the social precariousness of work in all activities, both in the private and public sectors and,
considering the process of neoliberal hegemony that has reconfigured work and the forms of
insertion in the public service, we will seek to problematize the way in which the substitute
teachers of the courses implemented through REUNI at UFBA are inserted in this context, as
well as the challenges that are posed to these teachers substitutes. We seek, above all, to
understand how these changes in the world of work and the form of short-term hiring (marked
by high work demands) impact the working conditions and lives of substitute teachers,
considering some factors such as: career, working hours, organization work, recognition,
among others pertinent to the topic. The theoretical foundation of this research was based on
studies on flexible accumulation, precarious work, neoliberalism and its consequences in
universities and the working conditions of substitute teachers in HEIs. For this, the technical
research procedure was based on bibliographic and documentary study and we used as a data
collection instrument the interview applied to the subjects (substitute teachers of the courses
from REUNI at UFBA.
