This paper presents a theoretical reflection on workplace bullying. More specifically, this is an analysis on the symbolic violence underwent by the homosexual worker, seeking to delimit the social and the subjectivity production context within which such violence occurs. Homosexuals, like many other social minorities, have been the target of symbolic violence in Brazilian labor organizations. This paper has as its origin a research project on workplace bullying towards homosexual male workers in some major cities in Brazil and it represents an ultimate reflection on the possibility of going beyond the concept of workplace bullying, deepening the concept of symbolic violence and introducing violence into the social and the contemporary subjectivity production space.
Violence; Suffering at work; Harassment