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More Difficult but More Interesting Work? Intensification and Autonomy

In: The Invisible Chain

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  • Jean-Pierre Durand

    (University of Paris-Evry)

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Sociologists of work and employment, managers, trade unionists, managers of human resources, corporate executives all have a different interpretation of the transformations that have so shaken our concept of work since the 1980s. But before going into these various interpretations, it might be better to step back a little and question the status of the researchers themselves, or rather, question the reasons that made them take up their investigations. We must also remind ourselves that a social reality, in this case the enterprise, can never be understood completely, and that its every fold, far from being a metaphor and revealing some aspect of reality, is in fact a screen that hides empirical reality.

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  • Jean-Pierre Durand, 2007. "More Difficult but More Interesting Work? Intensification and Autonomy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Invisible Chain, chapter 7, pages 141-166, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28690-0_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230286900_8
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