The controversies in French sociology of labour between 1945 and the early 60s sometimes overlook its place in the period of national reconstruction. As part of the social consensus marking reconstruction sociologists, encouraged by state fonctionnaires, sustained a research agenda perceived as...

The computerization of a machining line entails changes in work organization. The main innovations are the use of work teams, collective responsibility and the multiskilling of operatives. Yet these changes are not enough to ensure a satisfactory working of the line because of the way...

[eng] Can industrialisation through flexible specialisation as viewed by M. Piore and Ch. Sabel appear as the transcendance of Fordism ?. This article points out the historical, geographical and economic specificity of the emergeance of a « Third Italy » within the North-East and Central...