Controle em organizações produtivas de inspirações toyotistas: a psicodinâmica do trabalho na Siderúrgica Mendes Júnior/JF ‒ 1984-1995

Abstract

The present research aims to explain how the historical context in Brazil influenced the behaviour of workers in companies that adopted total quality management programs in the 1990’s. This study was conducted based on a historical approach, which is concerned with temporality due to the different forms of work organization. Thus, the research analyses the consequences of the control which workers were submitted from the point of view of the psychodynamic of work. Such control stems from the relations between productive forces and the kind of work implemented based on Toyotism. In order to achieve the purposes of this research, the attitudes adopted by the active workers of the company Siderúrgica Mendes Júnior/JF, from 1984 to 1995, were analysed through oral history methodology.