Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais (Jul 2006)

The Sisyphus' exhaustion: articulation between toyotism, neoliberalism and human capital theory

  • Rafael Alves da Silva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2006v11n1p147
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 147 – 162

Abstract

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From the articulation between actual production administration technics, the idea that suports the human capital concept and the neoliberals politics, results an appropriation and reification of the workers' knowledge, and consequent precarization of them. This custom are covered by a discourse that pleat the competition as an evolution and the new customs as qualitative gains to the work's meaning, facilitating the collaboration of this workers.

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