Work: discontinuity and rupture of the production model "Taylor"
When was exceeded the uniformity of the production model "Taylor", was made a dramatic discontinuity and a break with the model and its twentieth-century hard time ordering of relations between life and work, between production and reproduction.
In the paper today the walls are gone and the comrades working in turn, jumped the continuity of the departments or offices, and even dissolved also the territory of settlement, the city, the neighborhood, community. Life and work are definitely "desynchronized" with a new solitude for those who work (and not just those who work for the lost).
It is a loneliness accompanied by the "destructiveness" of memory, loss of awareness of the foundations of an identity built at the cost of hard struggle, by the loss of self-esteem built day after day, from staying at work in companies large or with recognized professional. A condition of fragmentation and a lack of organizational experience that they end up together overwhelm the consolidated balance between capital and labor, and allow you to undo contractual guarantees and regulations once formalized. The widening of flexible schemes subject to regulation in individual rather than collective thus increase the sense estrangement of social work performance.
A job that in some ways it might even be more content-rich, more full of responsibility, it is instead loaded the anguish of isolation, insecurity, loss of meaning.
addition to this fragmentation "vertical" on a local scale, has caused a disturbance "horizontal" and a reallocation of the production cycle on a global scale. We are no longer, as before, in front of the global exchange of goods and finished products, each belonging to a nation-country. Today sequenze della produzione si articolano nello spazio di tutto il pianeta, senza discontinuità temporale da luogo a luogo.
Il modello economico che governa la produzione - l'economia di mercato nelle sue varianti liberiste - mette al lavoro contemporaneamente persone con diversi salari, diverse normative, diversi sindacati, che però finiscono col comunicare tra loro direttamente attraverso le reti e i nodi del processo produttivo e non più solo, come accadeva prima, attraverso le istituzioni che governano il commercio dei prodotti di loro pertinenza.Così, i diritti dei lavoratori sono messi in relazione interna diretta e vengono portati, nella loro diversità, all'attenzione dei consumatori.
La saldatura fra produzione e consumo, fortunatamente, ricrea condizioni vantaggiose per la conquista e la generalizzazione dei diritti, almeno quanto aveva prodotto nel secolo scorso l'espansione industriale del primo dopoguerra secondo il modello fordista.
La novità odierna rispetto al passato risiede nella percezione del ruolo di consumatore da parte di chi tradizionalmente era considerato solo lavoratore e, viceversa, nella assunzione dei problemi del lavoro da parte di chi si batte per la qualità dello sviluppo e dell'ambiente.
In fact, the "virtuous circle" of Fordism was the ability of organized workers to negotiate wages and social status to a level of satisfaction of their basic needs so as to ensure the remaining individual consumption and saving functions also socially acceptable. Consider, in the '60s and '70s, policies for home and leisure activities, to consumer cooperatives, the spread in all the dwellings of access to electricity, the tariff policies for public transport.
At that time workers were organized in their unions to defend a model of non-consumption-oriented only by the market and to reunify the wage struggles with those of defending the purchasing power, while the distribution of its assets maintained a territorial link with the work and products of wage labor were enjoyed, even from a geographical point of view, in the same places on which the modernization of factories, increased profits, expanded innovation, but also increased the standard of living. So, between work and consumption ran a thin wire that served as the basis for a project report to be held between the progressive reduction of working time and take advantage of time independent living.
Unfortunately, the European trade union movement has yielded a total in the 90 the issue of reducing working time and its own project on the working life, exposing themselves with few defenses to a formidable attack of saturation and elongation of the performance of work and, simultaneously, a real "Taylorization" time of life , scheduled at the political-economic as incessant scanning of individual consumption induced - just think of fast food as supply constraints, role of supermarkets as places of entertainment and approval, the huge expansion of leisure time.
The employee of rich and developed countries in the process of de-industrialization, which has become increasingly affannato consumatore individuale, sembrava irrimediabilmente perduto. Finché la globalizzazione l'ha messo in contatto, come consumatore, con i lavoratori senza diritti dei Paesi poveri, i cui prodotti giungevano inopinatamente nei supermercati e nella sua casa, viaggiando a tutte le stagioni per migliaia di chilometri.
Ed è successo che gli stessi consumatori dei paesi ricchi, a loro volta lavoratori impegnati a difendere il potere di acquisto dei loro salari, non potevano più separare la propria prospettiva dal destino dei lavoratori-produttori dei paesi poveri, senza essere coinvolti dalla politica delle imprese globali nel livellamento al ribasso dei diritti dell'intero mondo del work.
A "worker" is now stunned to discover that behind their consumption and their standard of life there are people in other parts of the world in search of them lost their rights, often forced to emigrate, touched the tragedy of war and who are all from his own party, to set the center of society the dignity of work, together with social justice, respect for nature, the fight against poverty.
Finally, at the beginning of this millennium, consumer awareness, appreciation of nature, environmental protection, labor law and the rights of work seemed to begin to scale back together even in the world and appears to be regaining a whole, as it seemed clear to the most enlightened and unfortunately losing interpreters of workers' struggles of the early twentieth century.
But today it is no more. The economic crisis has divided the workers instead of uniting them .. but on the other hand, the crisis has united all the stakeholders.