The enthusiastic worker : another look at Marx and Taylor

• Mathieu BONNET
  Ingénieur des Mines (authors of L'ouvrier enthousiaste, Marx et Taylor revisités, École des Mines)
  
• David EMOND
  Ingénieur des Mines (authors of L'ouvrier enthousiaste, Marx et Taylor revisités, École des Mines)
  
• Jean-Louis BEFFA
  Chairman and managing director, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
  
• Francis PAVÉ
  Sociologist, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : National Centre for Scientific Research)
  

Résumé

What has become of the workers, those who simply carry out orders, as described by Frederick Taylor; and the exploited proletariat as defined by Karl Marx ? A study of about ten Saint-Gobain factories, carried out by Mathieu Bonnetand David Emond, shows that workers are now intelligent, in charge of complex machines and are often shareholders in their companies. The time has come for people who study the working class to take into account these developments in an industry which has transformed the relation with knowledge and with machines and the financial position of workers who have become operators. Nevertheless, there are still real proletariats, workers in unstable jobs or jobless people who are not connected with this industrial world. For them too, traditional, conceptual schemes are no longer representative and are inadequate to improve their fate.

Résumé traduit du français par Rachel MARLIN.

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Le texte complet est paru dans le journal de l'École de Paris N° 21.