A global design of the production change: working conditions and new technologies

Abstract

This article emphasizes a kind of strategy which by intervening in advance when the working systems are being planned, may both take into account the human aspects of technology and contribute to a better efficiency of these systems. The author analyses the production change, working conditions, work crisis, technological flexibility and range of organizational options. At last, the technological determinism is criticised. The working conditions will follow from the design of the production systems which is conditioned, in specific social contexts, by industrial cultures and certain characteristics of the working relations. Both of them will enable to choose definitely the kind of participation of the social actors in the change.