The human factor: approaches from the work of Georges Friedmann

Authors

  • Oscar Gallo Historiador e Mestre em História pela Universidade Nacional da Colômbia. Doutorando no programa de Pós-Graduação em Historia da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC. Bolsista da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES. Email: oscar.gallo@medellin.co

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-8951.2012v13n103p46

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to assess how the labor physiology and psycho technique placed the "human factor" in the productive processes core. Through this analysis it is possible to understand why a context of industrialization and the rise of Taylorism materialized an industrial hygiene, an occupational medicine and an industrial psychology concerned with working conditions and workers' health. Still, by examining this historical process, it is possible to rescue the humanism of Georges Friedmann and understand as mentioned by Georges Canguilhem about the work of that sociologist, the doctrinal and methodical insufficiencies of rationalization, the end of the absolute technical.

Published

2012-12-27

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