1987
Copyright PERSEE 2003-2023. Works reproduced on the PERSEE website are protected by the general rules of the Code of Intellectual Property. For strictly private, scientific or teaching purposes excluding all commercial use, reproduction and communication to the public of this document is permitted on condition that its origin and copyright are clearly mentionned.
Jean-Paul (de) Gaudemar, « De l'ouvrier-masse au travailleur fléxible », Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, ID : 10.3406/xxs.1987.1851
From mass worker to flexible worker, Jean-Paul de Gaudemar. Starting with the imperatives of productivity in industrial societies since the 19th century, the author examines the emergence of taylorism, then of the labor movement, and the progress of individual skill acquisition through education. He considers the need for flexibility, as common now in the office as in the factory, and thus gives a historical answer to the main question : how has the relation of the masses to the individual been expressed in terms of labor economy ?