EVOLUTION OF THE WORK: OF THE COMMUNITIES BEFORE INDUSTRIALS TO THE AFTER INDUSTRIAL

Abstract

It's likely that the 90's are going to be remembered as the decade that promoted most alteration in the working way of people. We have already been through processes of drying and restructuring ofthe manner ofproduction, we have suffered with the ups and downs in world economy, and, finally, we've lived the impact caused by the use ofthe Internet in our daily lives. When we deal with organizations, what is happening is much more than a simple reduction of the operational scale of work stations; it is a profound change in the mo de of production. Attempting to implant new patterns to boost the enterprise towards its success, we invite the employees to forget how things were done in the past and reevaluate how they could be improved in the future. In all operational levels, we find people fighting competitively and for productivity. The same conditions that created jobs a couple of centuries ago, meaning, large-scale production and the rise of mega-enterprises, are disappearing thanks to the ostensible use of high-technologies that allowed an automatization of serial production. In this article, we will explore the nature of human alienation caused by specific conditions acquired by the work in capitalist production.