Living Labour : Life on the Line at Peugeot France

by Durand, Jean-Pierre; Hatzfeld, Nicolas

• ISBN13: 9781403904065
• ISBN10: 1403904065
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-23
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is an important and original account of life in the new lean production workplace - the car industry where it all began. It brings together the two emblematic features of the 20th century: a working class meant to topple the social order, and a product that largely provided the developmental model of that same order. This book is neither a retrospective assessment nor a prediction for the future: it reveals what has changed and what has remained the same, in a workplace that remains a major part of the makeup of our society.

Author Biography

Jean-Pierre Durand is Professor of Sociology, and Chairman of the Centre de Recherches Pierre Naville, New University of Paris-Evry.

Nicolas Hatzfeld is a labor historian and worked on the Peugeot line for two years .

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vi
List of Tables	vii
List of Boxes	viii
Foreword	ix
Paul Stewart
Introduction	1	(6)
Peugeot-Sochaux: A Solid Inheritance and Incessant Change	7	(21)
The Line Seen from Below	28	(59)
Career Trajectories and the Composition of Identity	87	(70)
The Labyrinthine Complexities of Informal Adjustment	157	(61)
Possible Futures of the Sochaux System	218	(23)
Notes	241	(12)
Bibliography	253	(4)
Index	257