Contenu du sommaire : Les nouvelles formes de domination dans le travail (1)

Les nouvelles formes de domination dans le travail (1)

• Crise du travail et crise politique. - Gabrielle Balazs et Micel Pialoux.
• Stratégies patronales et résistances ouvrières. La "modernisation" des ateliers de finition aux usines Peugeot de Sochaux (1989-1993) - Michel Pialoux.
  Management strategies and worker resistance The present article studies the conditions in which some of the work shops at the Peugeot factory in Sochaux carried out their Japanese- style modernization Between 1989 and 1992 without interrupting production 000 workers in the archaic assembly shop where work was ultra-Taylorized were transferred to nearby shop called habillage-caisses in which the hierarchy was attempting to apply the new principles of participant management The job was still basically assembly work but the just in time production created new constraints In the beginning the coachwork workers were young go-getters who went along with the moderni zing logic Three years later the last workers old and demoralized knew that they were bound for the worst shop in the factory The study conducted over several-year period reveals the violence of the conflicts and in particular the symbolic struggles over the modernizing initiatives as well as the complexity and ambivalence of the employees strategies of resistance The article situates the analysis of the different attempts on the part of the management to reform the attitudes of an ageing work-force to launch new company culture etc. in the framework of broa der reflection on changes in the Peugeot factory and in the workers
• Les "bacs pro". La "désouvriérisation" du lycée professionel. - Stéphane Beaud
  The professional baccalauréats This article analyses the changes being made in the professional lycées highschools in connection with the modernization of the Sochaux production center and the emergence of new types of jobs in the steel industry gradual closure of engineering classes and creation of
• L'invention des techniciens sociaux. Du commandement social après juin 1936 chez Peugeot. - Yves Cohen.
• Les ambiguïtés de la proximité. Les nouveaux établissements d'équipement automobile. - Armelle Gorgeu et René Mathieu.
• Citius, altius, fortius. L'intensification du travail. - Michel Gollac et Serge Volkoff.
  tius ius ius Cet article appuie sur quelques résultats importants des enquêtes sta tistiques sur le travail menées auprès des salariés Il décrit une évo lution majeure du travail après les déclarations de ceux qui le font son intensification Le progrès technique et organisationnel ne met pas fin la pénibilité du travail automatisation de la produc tion ne concerne une fraction limitée des ouvriers et des employés de service Elle élimine pas les interventions manuelles toujours nécessaires pour la maintenance et la réparation et elle
• Une nouvelle forme de management, l'évaluation. - Gabrielle Balazs et Jean-Pierre Faguer.
  Evaluations new form of management The present article is based on series of interviews held in computer company during the 1980s and 90s with assembly-line workers tech nicians managers supervisors union officials and members of the joint production committee editors of the in-house newsletter mem bers of the medical personnel and representatives of the personnel and the continuing education services It shows that behind appa rently relaxed work-place relations the concern for transparency which obliges every employee to work under the watchful eye of everyone else and the ongoing evaluation of individual perfor mance are indicative of the tensions created by the intensification of competition Even the junior employees are required to devote more and more time to service and communication Acquiring an appa rently greater degree of autonomy means that each employee has to combine the contradictory qualities implied by the technical mastery of his or her job with regard for relations between colleagues and even to assume management tasks All members of the personnel are supposed to be capable of negotiating their job carrying out per sonal evaluations and selling themselves These service relations can be seen today in every workplace in factories offices super markets but also in the subordinate jobs in the intellectual domain and the media The lack of security that often goes with these jobs forces the employees constantly to invest and disinvest to believe at the same time in their future and in the possibility of losing their job The need to be available and flexible gives rise to constant process of self-evaluation and retraining Relations in the workplace are inse parable from relations of domination where every job implies mas tering specific technical skill but also calls for qualities normally demanded of personnel in the service sector
• Espaces professionnels et flux tendus. - Bruno Lefebvre.
  perform or see their job The only real change has been more acute and permanent conflict with new regulations concerning weekly dri ving and rest times The study conducted from 1983 to 1989 in sou theastern France of 50 trucking companies of all sizes and 500 drivers from various professional categories reveals that truckers professional space is not characterized by homogeneous status unlike that of other types of transportation in France Adaptations of the regulations and the exploitation of legal loopholes enable companies to hire fire
• La double vérité du travail. - Pierre Bourdieu.