Social scientists have always been interested in work as a social category for two reasons: (1) its relevance as an object of knowledge per se; & (2) as a key to understanding the fuller social relations among individual people. These two viewpoints are complementary because of the link between work's function as a motor of social change & its fundamental position in the study of the social division of labor. The sociology of industrial labor has emphasized from its very beginnings the growing separation between decision-making & executive power. This principle has recently been questioned by Gilbert de Terssac's Come cambia il lavoro. Efficacia, autonomia, valorizzazione delle competenze ([How Work Is Changing. Efficiency, Autonomy, and Evaluating Competency] 1993), focusing on automized work processes. By maintaining that social actors are reconstructing & transforming the social content of work & moving in the direction of more closely integrating executive & decision-making functions, de Terssac has challenged the fundamental assumptions of sociology of labor. A positive appraisal is given, yet counterexamples are given to his examples of trends in automized production systems supporting his thesis.
Nota critica: La costruzione delle regole nel lavoro che cambia
ALBANO, Roberto
1995-01-01
Abstract
Social scientists have always been interested in work as a social category for two reasons: (1) its relevance as an object of knowledge per se; & (2) as a key to understanding the fuller social relations among individual people. These two viewpoints are complementary because of the link between work's function as a motor of social change & its fundamental position in the study of the social division of labor. The sociology of industrial labor has emphasized from its very beginnings the growing separation between decision-making & executive power. This principle has recently been questioned by Gilbert de Terssac's Come cambia il lavoro. Efficacia, autonomia, valorizzazione delle competenze ([How Work Is Changing. Efficiency, Autonomy, and Evaluating Competency] 1993), focusing on automized work processes. By maintaining that social actors are reconstructing & transforming the social content of work & moving in the direction of more closely integrating executive & decision-making functions, de Terssac has challenged the fundamental assumptions of sociology of labor. A positive appraisal is given, yet counterexamples are given to his examples of trends in automized production systems supporting his thesis.
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