ABSTRACT
The growth of teamwork as a form of organization of the labor process, which, to a certain degree, does away with bureaucratic forms of control over labor, has been interpreted by authors such as Adler (1998)ADLER, Paul (1998) “Numi: de l’autonomie du travail à la socialisation de la production?” Durand, Stewart e Castillo (org.) L’avenir du travail à la chaîne. Paris: Editions la Découverte. as part of a tendency towards the socialization of production. The present paper develops an alternative conclusion: team- work as interpreted here has been effective from capital’s point of view precisely because it makes control over workers to spring from the workers themselves.
KEYWORDS:
Manufacture; taylorism; fordism
