This article aims to examine the impact of the system of flexible accumulation and neoliberal ideas in the teachers' work deepening the study about the (re)signification of the social roles of teachers constructed/negotiated in relations which are established in the teaching of Higher Education. To carry out this study, observations were made at a private university located in a municipality in the region of Campinas. The analyses of empirical material from the theoretical and methodological assumptions by Antunes and Vygotsky showed that in the conflicts and tensions of the routine of teachers' work complex movements of escape emerge, but also of confrontation and disruption, advancing the dissent, rescuing the collective social commitment and rightful recognition of the fundamental rights of every human being to their citizenship.
flexible accumulation; teachers' work; Higher Education; social roles