Control and discipline in the capitalist organization of work

Abstract

In the passage of the 1970 the companies were starting the restructuring process in view of the exhaustion of the Taylor-Fordist methods of production. This article examines, from the Marxian theory, control and discipline in the capitalist organization of work like reference to the basic changes with the advent of toyotism. It concludes that Toyotism reinforces the control and discipline at work as transform the direct objectives of capital in the worker himself objectives. In this sense, contrary to Fordism, is the replacement of the orders by the rules; based on the existence of subordination of orders and obedience to going to the subordination based on rules, objectives and goals productive.