Danièle Linhart

is a French sociologist. She is the author of La comédie humaine du travail: De la déshumanisation taylorienne à la sur-humanisation managériale, La modernisation des enterprises, and <Travailler sans les autres?, among many other works.

The Evolution of the Organization of Labor (1998)

The Evolution of the Organization of Labor (1998)

In the present context, what we are seeing does not really resemble the establishment of innovative organizations breaking with the Taylorist logic, but much more a mixture of genres where innovations are introduced but within a logic that remains fundamentally Taylorist. Management is engaged in a constant project to seek out another mode of control, domination, and coercion of employees before preparing the passage toward possible reforms of the organization of labor which could be rendered more compatible with the demands for responsiveness imposed by the market and new forms of competition.