Work discipline and corporate training processes in modernised big companies settled in Argentina

FIGARI, CLAUDIA

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

Analytica Publications

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2011 vol. 5 p. 128 - 147

1745-641X

The processes that have reinstalled and consolidated corporate hegemony over work have generated exclusion, increase of preferences and fragmentation among workers. During the nineties and also as a result of the deep crisis originated in the first years of the 2000 decade, a new scenario has been developed resulting in a new labour/professional order and in new disciplinary matrixes at work, oriented to consolidate new subjectivities among workers. In this scenario, there have consolidated corporate systems with a specific entity which recognise clear relations with the continuous improvement doctrine. This article analyses the control and work discipline devices that rule in the current business order and focuses on the relationships between those devices  and the corporate formation processes. There appears an environment for the imposition of senses and dispute as well, which is exposed in the article.In this regard, it is analysed how corporate systems assume a training role in the struggle to give support to corporate hegemony over work. We focus on the limits and tensions of corporate systems and the point of view of workers regarding the modernising policies. These perceptions are significant since they translate the tensions derived from the implementation of corporate systems.A centrally-qualitative perspective has structured this work, which also exposes the principal thesis derived from the research studies performed in the last years, in big automotive, iron and steel, and hydrocarbon production companies settled in Argentina.