Accroading to the rapid development of broadband network technology, the Internet video sharing platform YouTube has a number of amateur performers sharing their own shot creative video in order to attract the attention of the audience and the mass media. The study based on famous online amateur performers the spectacle / performance paradigm behavior to discuss the relationship in panopticon surroundings. Also the perspective of Attention Economy explain the amateur performers how to attract user¡¦s attention and maintain the relationship and the labor relationship between manufactures when they have opportunity with them. The study use Virtual Ethnography to watch and participate YouTube of amateurs and depth interviews to understand the motivation of amateurs. Accroading to the result of study, the amateur desire been watching from others, the relationship on the Internet reverse the power. At the beginning, the amateur create video by their self-awareness and enjoy others watching. When they become famous , the user¡¦s watching and beloved restrict creative of the amateur. Based on the continued, the culture of the labor process with manufactures was different form the traditional, the users opinion is more important than manufactures.

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This thesis is an inquiry into the human activity of designing computer artifacts that are useful to people in their daily activity at work. The emphasis is on opportunities and constraints for industrial democracy and quality of work. First, the philosophical foundation of design of computer artifacts is con­sidered. The need for a more fundamental understanding of design than the one offered by rationalistic systems thinking is argued. The alternative design philosophy suggested is based on pragmatic interpretations of the philosophies of existential phenomenology, emancipatory practice, and or­dinary language. Design is seen as a concerned social and creative activity founded in our traditions, but aiming at transcending them by anticipation and construction of alternative futures. Second, it is argued that the existing disciplinary boundaries between natural sciences, social sciences and humanities are dysfunctional for the subject matter of designing computer artifacts. An alternative under­standing of the subject matter and a curriculum for its study is discussed. The alternative emphasizes social systems design methods, a new theoreti­cal foundation of design, and the new potential for design in the use of prototyping software and hardware. The alternative also emphasizes the need to learn from other more mature design disciplines such as architec­tural design. Towards this background, and based on the practical research in two projects (DEMOS and UTOPIA), a view on work-oriented design of computer artifacts is presented. This concerns, thirdly, the collective resource approach to design of com­puter artifacts - an attempt to widen the design process to also include trade union activities, and the explicit goal of industrial democracy in design and use. It is argued that a participative approach to the design process is not sufficient in the context of democratization. However, it is suggested that it is technically possible to design computer artifacts based on criteria such as skill and democracy at work, and a trade union investigation and negotia­tion strategy is argued for as a democratic and workable complement to traditional design activities. Finally, a tŒil perspective - the ideal of skilled workers and designers in coopération designing computer artifacts as tools for skilled work is consid­ered. It is concluded that computer artifacts can be designed with the ideal of c rail tools for a specific profession, utilizing interactive hardware devices and the computer's capacity for symbol manipulation to create this resemblance, and that a tool perspective, used with care, can be a useful design ideal. However, the ideological use of a tool metaphor is also taken into account, as is the instrumental blindness a tool perspective may create towards the importance of social interaction competence at work. / digitalisering@umu

Baselregelverket är en samling rekommendationer och riktlinjer som syftar till att skapa global finansiell stabilitet. Det gällande regelverket, Basel II, riktar sig till kreditinstitut och andra värdepappersbolag i de länder som har valt att införliva regelverket i nationell lag. Basel II införlivades i svensk rätt i början av 2007 och därmed har regelverket blivit bindande för svenska banker.   Basel II stipulerar att banker ska använda internt utvecklade modeller för att utvärdera risk och kapitaltäckning samt fastställer att denna utvärdering ska användas för beslutsfattande i den dagliga verksamheten. Regelverkets krav har bland annat resulterat i ökad bolagsstyrning då utvecklandet av strategier och kontrollsystem för sådana typer av riskmodeller är något som sker på hög organisatorisk nivå, vid bankens huvudkontor. Problematiken i detta är att implementeringen av ett regelverk som influerar bankens organisationsstruktur blir en svårhanterlig fråga och får stor inverkan på arbetet för anställda med operativa befattningar.    Denna studie syftar till att genom åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer med anställda på operativ nivå vid fyra svenska banker skapa insikt i vilket inflytande regleringar, som Basel II, har på motivation i arbetet. Fynden indikerar att regleringar som medför förändring i arbete på operativ nivå kan influera motivationen om de anställda inte förstår syftet. Utifrån de anställdas uppfattningar kan vi påvisa att kommunikation och ledarskap spelar en avgörande roll för hur anställdas kommer uppleva sådana regleringars inverkan. Med avseende på detta resultat görs tolkningen att kommunikation och ledarskap bör anpassas utifrån de anställdas tidigare erfarenheter och kunskaper för att inte förändring i arbetet ska ge upphov till otillfredsställelse på grund av bristande förståelse. / The Basel Accords are a collection of recommendations and regulations aimed to establish a global financial stability. Basel II is directed towards credit institution and investment firms in those countries that have chosen to incorporate the regulations in national law. In Sweden the Basel II was incorporated in the Swedish law at the beginning of 2007, and since then the Basel II has became binding for the Swedish banks.   Basel II stipulates that banks must use in-house developed models to evaluate risks and capital requirement, and defines that the evaluations must be used in decision making in the daily work. The requirements defined by the regulations increase the corporate governance since the development of strategies and control systems for such risk models is done on a high organizational level, at the bank’s head office. The dilemma in this is that the implementation of the regulation, which influences the organizational structure of the bank, becomes a difficult question to manage, and it delivers a huge impact on the employees with operative tasks.   Through eight semi-structured interviews with employees with operative tasks at four Swedish banks, it is the purpose of this study to create an insight into what influence regulations, such as Basel II, have on the motivation at work. The findings indicate that regulations, which bring changes to work on operative level, can affect the motivation if the employees do not understand the purpose. Based on the views of the employees we can show that communication and leadership play a decisive role for how the employees will experience the influence of such regulations. Regarding this result the interpretation is that communication and leadership should be based on the employees’ previously experiences and knowledge, to prevent that change in work will cause dissatisfaction because of defective understanding.

Social scientists and food studies scholars have shown an enduring interest in how food is produced in our largely industrialized food system. However, there has been little research about the organization of labor on industrialized farms. These sites of production are mostly privately owned and hidden away from researchers and journalists, who are often perceived as critics or activists by farmers and other agriculturalists. My dissertation fills this gap by focusing exclusively on industrialized contract broiler farms. Contract broiler farming is a model where farmers agree to raise chickens for meat for a set amount of time, at a rate of pay based on the ratio of feed to chicken weight at slaughter. Farmers invest in the built infrastructure to execute this process, but the company they contract for is mostly in control of the upstream and downstream supply and processing chains that depend on the production of the broiler chicken for their continued functioning. I use archival, interview, and ethnographic data to detail the history of broiler farming, the emergence of contracting, and what the experience of it is like today. The most significant and novel part of this project is my ethnographic data collected over six months spent working on two broiler farms contracted with one of the largest firms in the US. To date, no other researchers have been able to gain this level of access. In this dissertation, I begin by exploring the role of management, detailing how the structure of the farming contract and ambiguous supervisory oversight facilitates farmer’s compliance with company demands. Then, utilizing agricultural and labor scholarship on deskilling in the labor process, I explore how poultry farming has become deskilled, robbing farmers of autonomy, the opportunity to agitate for better labor conditions, and ultimately eroding the intimate knowledge necessary to execute successful animal husbandry. Finally, I explore the games farmers play at work. While these games obscure how surplus value is appropriated from the farmer by the contracting firm, they also demonstrate farmer’s resistance and acquiescence to their deskilling and loss of autonomy.

This dissertation is about the incorporation of labor migrants from Turkey in the context of precarious U.S. labor markets. Labor market transitions and work experiences are two aspects of incorporation. This dissertation analyzes the process by which first-generation Turkish male immigrants arrive in the United States, enter low-wage jobs, and then shift to the trucking industry. This shift brings a significant upward mobility for them. This discussion explains how the socio-economic cleavages within the immigrant community both conform to and challenge the dynamics of immigrant-dominated sectors. Moreover, this study examines the work life of immigrant truckers through their conception of money, time, occupation, entrepreneurship, and labor. This dissertation addresses two sets of research questions: The first set analyzes the structural reasons of labor market transitions by looking at the limitations that immigrants face. The second set looks at the role of agent, examining the formation of family-based and community-based networks and resources. It asks the question of how migrants navigate the labor market by changing jobs and sectors as well as by forming businesses. The findings of this research draw from investigations spanning three years. The qualitative data is based on 24 in-depth interviews, as well as several hundred hours of participant observations among first-generation Turkish immigrants who work as truckers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The present study contributes to sociological knowledge in general and specifically to three areas of the discipline. First, it enriches the limited literature on Turkish immigrants in the United States, as there is a dearth of research on their labor market incorporation in the trucking industry. Second, it contributes to the theoretical discussions on the entrepreneurship of first-generation immigrants by focusing on small and understudied immigrant communities. Third, this study extends the academic knowledge about the work experiences of immigrant truckers. It examines how the varying immigrant work experiences outcomes are influenced by employment status and the structure of trucking segments. Chapter 2 develops a conceptual framework regarding the labor transitions of immigrants focused on three dimensions: the migration policies of sending and receiving countries, the structure of labor markets in the receiving context, and the characteristics of the immigrant community. Chapter 3 details the methodology and methods used in this study. Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 encompass the empirical sections of this dissertation. Chapter 4 discusses the migration patterns of truckers by focusing on the importance of social networks. Chapter 5 explores the pre-trucking period during which Turkish immigrants work in dead-end jobs and prepare to become truckers. Chapter 6 examines the work life of truckers by revealing the processes of obtaining commercial driver's licenses (CDL), choosing the segment of the industry where they will work, and their search for and selection of trucking companies and loads. Chapter 7 scrutinizes the acts of entrepreneurship in which these migrants are engaged. Chapter 8 summarizes the empirical findings while engaging with the theoretical debates within sociology on the incorporation of migrants. First, the labor demands of U.S. capitalism attract immigrants to certain low-income jobs with little promise. After the early years of settlement, nonetheless, migrants are able to mobilize networks and resources to change this early labor-intensive occupational entrapment. Such a change provides income and status increases for the migrants. I term this new concentration “creative occupational entrapment,” which can (potentially) bring migrants some economic success via entrepreneurship. However, the accessed immigrant resources are constrained by the limitations of the dynamics within the trucking industry. The segmentation within the trucking sector is not something created by immigrants, as they only fill out the existing segments depending on their resources and ties. Second, the characteristics of a migrant community heavily shape the differentiation within the trucking industry in terms of an individual’s sector segment and employment status. The way in which immigrants mobilize ties are affected by three dynamics: hometown background, class-based dispositions, and family-based resources. I define three segments of trucking in this study: (1) national tractor-trailer trucking, (2) regional tractor-trailer trucking, and (3) local dump trucking. National tractor-trailer trucking attracts a variety of immigrants who tend to leave this “tough” segment after a brief while due to opportunities in the other segments. Immigrants of relatively higher education levels from urban backgrounds are more likely to work in the “cool” regional tractor-trailer throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. These individuals have loose ties to the immigrant community and have no tight-knit community ties. Conversely, immigrants of relatively lower education levels from rural background tend to concentrate in “dirty” dump trucking in specific counties of New Jersey. They have closer ties with the immigrant community and strict ties with their tight-knit community. Within each segment, new differentiations based on employment status are formed. Through the course of this research, five categories of immigrants were identified. Such categories depend on an individual’s employment status and the number of trucks they have: pre-trucking migrant workers have nothing to sell but labor (Employment 1), company truckers (Employment 2), survivalist truckers with one truck (Employment 3), family truckers with two trucks (Employment 4), and boss truckers who have more than three trucks (Employment 5). For the regional tractor-trailer segment, having class-based dispositions (such as English proficiency and the familiarity with the economic system) enables for the transitions from Employment 2 to Employment 3. Those who have family resources are more likely to increase their position from Employment 3 to Employment 4 and 5. For the local dump trucking segment, having tight-knit community ties and resources is usually enough to jump from Employment 2 to Employment 3. Thus, class-based dispositions are not strictly required given their tight-knit community resources. Those who have family-based resources have additional likelihood to increase their position from Employment 2 to Employment 4 and Employment 5. While individual-based resources are important to be self-employed due to the lack of community resources in regional tractor-trailer trucking, an individual’s tight-knit community helps truckers in local dump trucking to be self-employed. In both segments, family-based resources are key to becoming employers. The use of labor characterizes the labor market experiences of immigrants. For my participants, such a process begins with taking commands from employers, and ends with giving commands to their own employees. Labor matters when immigrants are exploited in non-trucking as well as trucking businesses. It also matters when they exploit themselves and family members in individual or family-based trucking businesses respectively. Only those who have several trucks are exempted from getting exploited. Although entrepreneurship might be economically beneficial for some, success is not always guaranteed in the long-term. Moreover, entrepreneurship potentially brings destructive competition, long hours of work and the intensive use of family labor. / Sociology

The evolution of technology brings with it the evolution of business processes. Without a doubt, technology changes how work is performed. At first glance, workplace technology appears to be a great boon to society. However, research presents opposing views on how workplace technologies impact the individual. One perspective argues that organizations utilize technology to redesign work processes, such that the worker requires less skill, autonomy, and compensation. The opposing perspective argues that organizations utilize technology to empower employees to improve efficiency and profits. This dissertation consists of three interrelated studies examining workplace technology’s impact on decision makers. The first study examines the capability of an enterprise system to increase the application of scientific management techniques to middle management and, consequently, to degrade middle management’s work by limiting their autonomy. The second study investigates the capability of an enterprise system to facilitate the empowerment of managers via mutual monitoring and social identification. The third study builds upon the first study by examining how limiting autonomy through technology impacts the intrinsic motivation of decision makers and, as a result, affects the decision making process. Study one applies labor process theory to explain how enterprise systems can degrade the work of middle management via scientific management techniques. The purpose of this study is to test if the expectations of labor process theory can be applied to enterprise systems. In order to test this assertion, a field survey utilizing 189 middle managers is employed and the data is analyzed using component based structural equation modeling. The results indicate that iii enterprise system integration increases two scientific management techniques, formalization and performance measurement, but do not reveal a significant relationship between enterprise system integration and routinization. Interestingly, the results also indicate that routinization is the only scientific management technique, of the three studied, that directly limits the autonomy of the middle managers. Although performance measurement does not reduce autonomy directly, performance measurement interacts with routinization to reduce autonomy. This study contributes to the enterprise system literature by demonstrating enterprise systems’ ability to increase the degree of scientific management applied to middle management. It also contributes to labor process theory by revealing that routinization may be the scientific management technique that determines whether other control techniques are utilized in a manner consistent with labor process theory. The ability of an enterprise system to facilitate the application of Mary Parker Follett’s managerial control concepts are investigated in the second study. Specifically, Follett theorizes that information sharing facilitates the internalization of group goals and empowers individuals to have more influence and be more effective. This study employs a survey of 206 managers to test the theoretical relationships. The results indicate that enterprise system integration increases information sharing in the form of mutual monitoring, consequently, leading to social identification among peer managers. Additionally, social identification among peer managers empowers managers to have more influence over the organization. The study contributes to empowerment research by acknowledging and verifying the role that social identification plays in translating an empowering work climate into empowered managers. The study’s conclusion iv that enterprise system integration facilitates the application of Follett’s managerial control concepts extends both enterprise system and managerial control literature. The third study builds upon study one by examining the affect that autonomy has upon the decision maker. This study marries self-determination theory and technology dominance theory to understand the role that self-determination, intrinsic motivation, and engagement have upon technology dominance. Self-determination theory asserts that higher degrees of selfdetermination increase intrinsic motivation. Furthermore, self-determination research finds that intrinsic motivation increases engagement, while technology dominance research indicates that lack of engagement is an antecedent of technology dominance. Thus, applying self-determination theory as a predictor of technology dominance suggests that autonomy and relatedness associated with a task increase the intrinsic motivation to complete that task and consequently increase engagement in the task. Task engagement, in turn, reduces the likelihood of technology dominance. The proposed theoretical model is tested experimentally with 83 junior level business students. The results do not support the theoretical model, however the findings reveal that intrinsic motivation does reduce the likelihood of technology dominance. This indicates that intrinsic motivation as a predictor of technology dominance should be further investigated. Additionally, the study contributes to technology dominance literature by exhibiting a more appropriate operationalization of the inappropriate reliance aspect of technology dominance. This dissertation reveals that various theories concerning workplace technology and management control techniques have both validity and limitations. Labor process theorists cannot assume that all technologies and management control techniques are utilized to undermine the employee’s value to the organization, as Study 2 reveals that enterprise systems v and mutual monitoring lead to empowered managers. Likewise, proponents of enterprise systems cannot assume that the integrated nature of enterprise systems is always utilized in an empowering manner, as Study 1 reveals the increased performance measurement through enterprise systems can be utilized to limit managers in a routinized job environment. While the third study was unable to determine that the control features in technology affect the intrinsic motivation to complete a task, the findings do reveal that intrinsic motivation is directly related to technology dominance. The findings and theoretical refinements demonstrate that workplace technology and management control have a complicated relationship with the employee and that the various theories concerning them cannot be applied universally.

O presente trabalho tomou como ponto de partida as recentes alterações legislativas que instituíram o processo judicial eletrônico para a reflexão sobre a produção da prova judicial no processo do trabalho, sua interpretação e sua instrumentalização na argumentação jurídica. O primeiro capítulo examina, a partir de fragmentos literários, as relações entre texto e testemunho sob o prisma das relações entre a estrutura do texto e os eventos narrados. O segundo capítulo dedica-se a expor as alterações legislativas que deram azo ao presente trabalho e algumas interpretações que serviram de base às reflexões dos capítulos seguintes, localizando-os no contexto da modernidade ocidental e destacando as bases metodológicas empregadas na pesquisa que resultou na presente tese. O terceiro capítulo dedica-se a fazer uma breve reflexão sobre o conceito de verdade, nas acepções do senso comum e da filosofia, relacionando-as com as correntes positivistas em filosofia e no direito, e a apresentar uma crítica a tais conceitos sob a perspectiva das ciências sociais. No quarto capítulo, são estudadas as normas que regem a produção da prova no processo do trabalho. O quinto capítulo apresenta uma discussão sobre o fato relevante para o processo judicial e sua prova, sob o enfoque da filosofia analítica, da hermenêutica e das teorias da argumentação. Nas considerações finais, pondera-se que o processo hermenêutico de interpretação da norma é concomitante ao processo de interpretação das provas judiciais e da construção da matéria fática no processo. Matéria de fato e matéria de direito se interpenetram no círculo hermenêutico de compreensão do caso judicial e determinam-se mutuamente. Os fatos somente são perceptíveis no momento mesmo da pré-compreensão da interpretação da norma que será levada em conta, ao mesmo tempo em que a norma a ser invocada somente e passa a existir com a pré-compreensão dos fatos que lhe dão estofo. / This study has its starting point in the recent legislative changes that instituted the electronic judicial process and has intended a reflection on the production of evidence in labor process, its interpretation and its use in legal reasoning. Based in literary fragments, the first chapter examines the relationships between text and testimony from the perspective of the relationship between the structure of the text and the events narrated. The second chapter is dedicated to exposing the legislative changes that led to this work and some interpretations that served as the basis for reflections of the following chapters, locating them in the context of Western modernity and highlighting the methodological bases used in the research that resulted in this thesis. The third chapter is devoted to a brief reflection on the concept of truth in the meanings of common sense and philosophy, relating them with positivist philosophy and legal positivism, and to present a critique of these concepts from the perspective of social sciences. The fourth chapter studies the rules governing the production of evidence in the labor process. The fifth chapter presents a discussion of the relevant fact for the lawsuit and its proof, from the standpoint of analytic philosophy, hermeneutics and theories of reasoning. The last chapter considers that the process of hermeneutic interpretation of law is concomitant to the process of judicial interpretation of the evidence and the construction of the factual material in the process. Matter of fact and matter of law intermingle in the hermeneutic circle of understanding the court case and determine each other. The facts are noticeable only when the \"pre-understanding\" interpretation of the law that will be taken into account. At the same time, the law to be invoked only comes into existence with the \"pre-understanding\" of the facts that give them substance.

Todos conhecem a importância do professor na garantia da qualidade do ensino. Contudo, para que haja bons professores é fundamental que lhes sejam asseguradas condições de trabalho adequadas. Já existe, no Brasil, um número significativo de pesquisas sobre os professores da rede pública, mas o mesmo não se pode dizer sobre aqueles que atuam na rede privada de ensino. Nesse contexto, esta pesquisa visou a analisar as condições de trabalho docente na rede privada de Ribeirão Preto SP, não apenas no que diz respeito à remuneração, mas também sobre os principais problemas enfrentados pelos docentes em suas atividades, considerando as demandas trabalhistas que são atendidas pelo departamento jurídico do sindicato dos professores, bem como as respostas dadas a um questionário por um grupo de professores. O estudo foi desenvolvido na perspectiva da pesquisa qualitativa, na modalidade estudo de caso, sendo que os instrumentos de coleta de dados utilizados foram: análise documental dos dados do censo escolar disponibilizados pelo Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP), da legislação relativa aos professores e, particularmente, da Convenção Coletiva de Trabalho dos professores da rede privada de ensino e dos processos jurídicos impetrados pelos professores da rede privada; um questionário online enviado aos filiados ao sindicato profissional, entrevistas semiestruturadas com a presidência e com o setor jurídico do sindicato local. Diferentemente da imagem que busca mostrar o professor da rede privada como apresentando uma condição de trabalho muito superior ao de seu colega da rede pública, na rede privada de ensino de Ribeirão Preto não foram observadas, em vários quesitos, condições adequadas de trabalho. Em especial no caso dos professores que atuam no ensino fundamental, constatou-se um piso salarial inferior ao pago à rede pública, quando se consideram as horas em atividades extraclasse. Constatou-se, também, por parte das escolas o descumprimento de cláusulas básicas da Convenção Coletiva de Trabalho. Considerando a situação destacada, é importante que as informações trazidas por meio dos dados desta pesquisa sejam difundidas, para que melhorias nas condições de trabalho docente na rede privada de Ribeirão Preto sejam realizadas. / It is widely known the importance of the teacher in the warranty of the teaching. However, in order to exist well qualified teachers, it is elementar that they have access to appropriated work conditions. In Brazil, there is a considerable quantity of research about the public school teachers, but this is not the same situtation concerning the teachers who work in the private educational system. In this context, this research aims to analyze the work conditions of teachers in the private educational system in Ribeirão Preto SP, not only concerning to their remuneration, but also about the main problems faced by these teachers in their activities, considering the working demands that are attended by the juridical department of the teachers syndicate, as well the answers that are present in a poll addressed to a group of teachers. This study was developed in the qualitative perspective, in the case study modality, and the data collection instruments used were: documentary analysis of the school census data, that were made available by the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP), of the legislation related to the teachers and, specifically, about the Collective Work Convention of the teachers of the private educational system and the juridical process filed by these teachers; an online poll sent to the associated teachers of the professional syndicate, semi structured interviews with the presidence and the juridical department of the local syndicate. Differently of the image that try to represent the teacher of the private educational system as a professional that have a much better work condition than the teacher of the public educational system, in the private educational system of Ribeirão Preto were not observed, in many points, appropriated work conditions. Specifically in the case of the teachers that work in the Elementary School level, was noted a minimum wage lower than that is paid in the public system when are considered the hours spend in out of class activities. It was realized, too, the non compliance of basic clauses of the Collective Work Convention by some schools. Considering this situation, it is important that this informations obtainded by the data collected in this research are diffused, in order that improvements in the teachers work conditions in the private school system of Ribeirão Preto are concreted indeed.

Todos conhecem a importância do professor na garantia da qualidade do ensino. Contudo, para que haja bons professores é fundamental que lhes sejam asseguradas condições de trabalho adequadas. Já existe, no Brasil, um número significativo de pesquisas sobre os professores da rede pública, mas o mesmo não se pode dizer sobre aqueles que atuam na rede privada de ensino. Nesse contexto, esta pesquisa visou a analisar as condições de trabalho docente na rede privada de Ribeirão Preto SP, não apenas no que diz respeito à remuneração, mas também sobre os principais problemas enfrentados pelos docentes em suas atividades, considerando as demandas trabalhistas que são atendidas pelo departamento jurídico do sindicato dos professores, bem como as respostas dadas a um questionário por um grupo de professores. O estudo foi desenvolvido na perspectiva da pesquisa qualitativa, na modalidade estudo de caso, sendo que os instrumentos de coleta de dados utilizados foram: análise documental dos dados do censo escolar disponibilizados pelo Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP), da legislação relativa aos professores e, particularmente, da Convenção Coletiva de Trabalho dos professores da rede privada de ensino e dos processos jurídicos impetrados pelos professores da rede privada; um questionário online enviado aos filiados ao sindicato profissional, entrevistas semiestruturadas com a presidência e com o setor jurídico do sindicato local. Diferentemente da imagem que busca mostrar o professor da rede privada como apresentando uma condição de trabalho muito superior ao de seu colega da rede pública, na rede privada de ensino de Ribeirão Preto não foram observadas, em vários quesitos, condições adequadas de trabalho. Em especial no caso dos professores que atuam no ensino fundamental, constatou-se um piso salarial inferior ao pago à rede pública, quando se consideram as horas em atividades extraclasse. Constatou-se, também, por parte das escolas o descumprimento de cláusulas básicas da Convenção Coletiva de Trabalho. Considerando a situação destacada, é importante que as informações trazidas por meio dos dados desta pesquisa sejam difundidas, para que melhorias nas condições de trabalho docente na rede privada de Ribeirão Preto sejam realizadas. / It is widely known the importance of the teacher in the warranty of the teaching. However, in order to exist well qualified teachers, it is elementar that they have access to appropriated work conditions. In Brazil, there is a considerable quantity of research about the public school teachers, but this is not the same situtation concerning the teachers who work in the private educational system. In this context, this research aims to analyze the work conditions of teachers in the private educational system in Ribeirão Preto SP, not only concerning to their remuneration, but also about the main problems faced by these teachers in their activities, considering the working demands that are attended by the juridical department of the teachers syndicate, as well the answers that are present in a poll addressed to a group of teachers. This study was developed in the qualitative perspective, in the case study modality, and the data collection instruments used were: documentary analysis of the school census data, that were made available by the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP), of the legislation related to the teachers and, specifically, about the Collective Work Convention of the teachers of the private educational system and the juridical process filed by these teachers; an online poll sent to the associated teachers of the professional syndicate, semi structured interviews with the presidence and the juridical department of the local syndicate. Differently of the image that try to represent the teacher of the private educational system as a professional that have a much better work condition than the teacher of the public educational system, in the private educational system of Ribeirão Preto were not observed, in many points, appropriated work conditions. Specifically in the case of the teachers that work in the Elementary School level, was noted a minimum wage lower than that is paid in the public system when are considered the hours spend in out of class activities. It was realized, too, the non compliance of basic clauses of the Collective Work Convention by some schools. Considering this situation, it is important that this informations obtainded by the data collected in this research are diffused, in order that improvements in the teachers work conditions in the private school system of Ribeirão Preto are concreted indeed.