Chapter La sociologia francese tra fordismo e società postindustriale: Georges Friedmann, Pierre Naville e Alain Touraine

Abstract

The subject at work, in different forms and modalities, is at the center of attention of these three scholars. Labor relations constitute the fulcrum in which the condition and action of workers and their social movements are located. The way these three authors approached the theme of work, the crucial nature and urgency of the questions that had emerged in the transformations of industrial society in the 1900s, the questions that were posed about man, work and technology, the problematic responses that they tried to give starting after the Second World War, ensure that some of their intuitions - even if they remained closely linked to industrial machinism and mechanical automation of the last century - in reality can still speak to today and to the various forms of digital automation of the work.