Taylor no Purgatório: o trabalho operário na metalomecânica pesada

Abstract

Following almost 30 years of evolution in the worker's work in heavy metallomechanics, the author wants to answer namely the following questions: which caracteristics are shown either by the mechanization and automation or the «scientific organization of work» in this kind of industry; which are their incidences on the professional composition, contents in work, the level and nature of the worker's qualification; how do workers react to the mechanization and taylorization of work; which factors - technical, economic, social - play most either in adopting new machines and techniques or in applying Taylor's principles? If the large scale industry is the history of disqualification and disappropriation of the professional worker, if it is the history of the agony and death of identity in craft, the industry per unit and in small scale is above all the history of a permanent «guerilla», open or subterranean, between the demands for the capital valuation and those of the valuation of the worker's professional capital that neither the machine nor Taylor's principles have succeeded in destroying completely.