Workers on the line in small firms: Informal management and working-class clivages ; Les petites mains des petites entreprises : gestion informelle et fractures ouvrières

International audience ; Relations between workers of low status in small firms are often presented either as fragmentary in an autocratic setting or, on the contrary, as harmonious in a personalized world. This article, based on fieldwork and a historical case study of a distributor of pharmaceutic products in Belgium, advances the idea that, despite the importance of alliances between workers, fractures between groups are more significant in small organizations where management tends to be informal. Competing groups form that are based on bonds of “interknowledge” and on alliances with the s... Mehr ...