Il laboratorio psico tecnico di Ingurtosu: un caso di organizzazione scientifica del lavoro nelle miniere della Sardegna

Abstract

After the Red Biennium and during the Twenties, a debate developed in Sardinia around the organization of work and the salaries of the workers employed in the mines. In 1923 the Pertusola group, under the supervision of Paul Audibert, established a psycho-technical lab at Ingurtosu, where the production parameters were studied and the workers were selected. After only four years the results of this study were presented: it was observed that, through a scientific work organization, production doubled with a significant decrease in injuries. Man became a machine to be studied in order to increase production and his work started to be considered as a mere technical tool. A depersonalization that marked the territory and the lives of its inhabitants, done in the name of progress.

Keywords

• history
• italy
• sardinia
• mines
• history of work