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 ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
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Schlagwörter: | Belgium / Workers / Small firms / Pharmaceutical sector / Career / Wholesalers / Ethnography / Interknowledge / Carrière / Petites entreprises / Secteur pharmaceutique / Ouvrières / Grossiste / Ethnographie / Interconnaissance / [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology |
Sprache: | Französisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28523552 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hal.science/hal-01261582 |
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 staff in order to gain access to scarce resources. ; Les relations entre travailleurs de bas statut dans les petites entreprises sont souvent présentées soit comme atomisées dans un cadre autocratique soit, au contraire, comme harmonieuses dans un univers personnalisé. Cet article, reposant sur une enquête ethnographique et historique d’un distributeur pharmaceutique, avance plutôt que si les alliances entre ces travailleurs sont prégnantes, les fractures entre groupes sont aussi plus vives dans certaines petites organisations, là où la gestion est largement informelle. On y observe la constitution de groupes concurrents, fondés sur des liens d’interconnaissance et des alliances avec l’encadrement, pour accéder aux rares ressources disponibles.