This article aims to analyze the interpersonal violence experienced by subjects who work or worked in a junior enterprise (JE). For this, we have developed a theoretical framework which presents and thinks through the theory related to workplace moral harassment. Succinctly, moral harassment is usually characterized, in the Organizational Studies, as hostile, inappropriate, repetitive, and prolonged behaviors exercised through attitudes, words, gestures, and/or humiliating situations involving the worker, or a group, during the work day. In this article, we discuss the concept of moral harassment, which is closely related to the subject's intentionality, and, on the other hand, we propose the concept of interpersonal violence, that is, the act of assaulting the subject in a physical and/or discursive way and/or through actions and/or harmful attitudes, either intentionally or not. Then, we analyze some reports of interpersonal violence experienced by current or former junior entrepreneurs under the light of this concept; we conducted an empirical survey with a qualitative approach, where we used the oral history methodology and analyzed data according to the hermeneutic/dialectic technique. We found out that the types of violence reported are, in most cases, naturalized by the victims themselves and the social body as the result of a kind of praxis considered necessary for incorporating the subject. We also highlight the clear overlapping of the categories interpersonal violence and symbolic violence.
Workplace moral harassment; Symbolic violence; Interpersonal violence