A exaustão de Sisifo : gestão produtiva, trabalhador contemporaneo e novas formas de controle / The Exhaustion of Sisyphus : Productive management, the contemporary worker, and new means of control

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The analysis of the current configuration of production shows a picture in which most recent developments in information technology, associated with new organization methods, make it possible to improve productivity, while reducing production time. Instead of lowering work weariness, this situation has allowed downsizing, thus entailing the intensification of work for those who remain in work, and deteriorating their conditions. Contradictorily, management ‘tools’ associated with toyotism and total quality management demand higher participation and commitment by workers than in other moments such as the main period of fordism. Collaborators’ cognitive elements are used in a discourse that stimulates creativity, competition, and the continuous search for improvement. Based on the observation of the productive environment and the analyses of standards, such as ISO 9000 and correlate techniques, this research aimed at going beyond the factory walls and understanding the elements that have contributed to constitute such types of worker and society. The combination of toyotism, neoliberalism, and the theory of human capital promotes new means of control in an enterprise-like society, constituted of individuals who must act as ‘entrepreneurs’, investing in themselves, in an effort to live up to market impositions.

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human capital capital humano controle de produção - aspectos sociais total qality management iso 9000 production control process control neoliberalism controle de processo - aspectos sociais total quality neoliberalismo - aspectos sociais gestão pela qualidade total qualidade total

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