The bearers of Lesions for Repetitive Efforts (LER/DORT), besides the complaints of musculoskeletal pains, they manifest psychic suffering related to the illness. In this investigation, it was looked for, through the methodology of the Histories of Life, to understand as the social relationships were constituted, of work and the processes of ilness of workers bearers of LER/DORT, originating from of the shoes industry of Rio Grande do Sul, assisted at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. They took place open individual interviews that were transcribed and analyzed. The appeals and the present singularities in the depositions originated five thematic categories: child work; low education and beginning in the shoes industry; pleasure relationship and suffering with the work; marks of the work in the body and removal of the work and suffering. These workers' histories appeared for the fault existences, failure and exclusion for no more work.
work; LER/DORT; histories of life; psychic suffering; Social Psychology