Governing workplace safety through apparatuses: A historical study of the French construction industry in the 20th century
| Autor: | Thibault Daudigeos, Amélie Boutinot, Stéphane Jaumier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Strategy and Management
05 social sciences Control (management) Resistance (psychoanalysis) 050201 accounting General Business Management and Accounting Critical management studies Power (social and political) Construction industry Management of Technology and Innovation Law 0502 economics and business Isolation (psychology) Engineering ethics Sociology Discipline 050203 business & management Governmentality |
| Zdroj: | Organization. 24:737-760 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7323 1350-5084 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1350508416665473 |
| Popis: | Critical management studies have largely failed to offer a comprehensive understanding of the devising and implementation of workplace-safety policies and of the complex power arrangements these may imply. By primarily studying forms of control in relative isolation, these studies have instead produced various puzzles, namely, the persistence of a disciplinary treatment of workplace safety within the current neo-liberal era and the paucity of resistance to this. Drawing on the Foucauldian concept of apparatus and related analytical framework, we propose to remedy this through analysing the successive arrangements governing workplace accidents in the French construction industry during the 20th century. We evidence three successive regimes of control in which distinct apparatuses interact in various ways across different settings. Our study testifies to the composite nature of regimes of control governing workplace safety, and shows how it may impinge upon power relations, ultimately allowing more relevant struggles for a safer workplace to be envisaged. Additionally, by proposing an operationalization of the so-far-overlooked concept of apparatus, our study elaborates on the relevance of the governmentalist tradition for critical management studies. |
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