Transformações tecnológicas no ambiente de trabalho: os projetistas da indústria mecânica de base

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Degenhardt, Victor Werner
• Orientador(a): Lazzareschi, Noemia
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Trabalho; Projetos de engenharia; Alienação
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Labor; Engineering projects design; Alienation
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3222

The study of new technology in the labor world and in life conditions is a relevant theme for Labor Sociology, as part of a broader context in society. The transformation of an industrial to a post-industrial society, with its characteristic intellectual technology , based on computers and information technology, has had a significant impact on the people who were affected by the change in their instruments of work. To analyze this impact, a group of nine project designers in the Brazilian base industry have been interviewed. This group used to perform their activities practically as artisans, working on design boards placed in vast offices that facilitated socialization. These professionals were polytechnic , i.e. they had know-how coupled with the ability to know why they should do their job in a certain way. As of the 1990 s, computer workstations are introduced, and with them the software that facilitated design workflow, such as CAD. These new instruments brought several advantages, such as the reduction of time to perform a job, but on the other hand obstructed socialization and caused some alienation by introducing a new mediating agent in the man-design relationship, something that was not perceived when designs were shared among colleagues and made by pencil or pen. Another change has happened as a result of computer technology: the advent of wage-based entrepreneurs replacing wage-based employees. In this model, the worker is treated as a pseudo-entrepreneur that has to constantly show their usefulness to the company and compete on a daily basis against others in a competitive free market. These facts explain, though partially, the difficulty of passing on the knowledge that allows the double process of interiorization of what is exterior, and the exteriorization of what is interior . As a consequence, although the social qualification, obtained in a standardized way in universities, has grown, allowing broader and more strategic business vision, the technological qualification may be discussed"