More Difficult but More Interesting Work? Intensification and Autonomy

Jean-Pierre Durand
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Jean-Pierre Durand: University of Paris-Evry

Chapter 7 in The Invisible Chain, 2007, pp 141-166 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Sociologists of work and employment, managers, trade unionists, managers of human resources, corporate executives all have a different interpretation of the transformations that have so shaken our concept of work since the 1980s. But before going into these various interpretations, it might be better to step back a little and question the status of the researchers themselves, or rather, question the reasons that made them take up their investigations. We must also remind ourselves that a social reality, in this case the enterprise, can never be understood completely, and that its every fold, far from being a metaphor and revealing some aspect of reality, is in fact a screen that hides empirical reality.

Keywords: Assembly Line; Team Leader; Call Centre; Labour Union; Formal Rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230286900_8

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