Building criteria to analyze technologies within self- managed enterprises

Authors

  • María Amalia Miano Instituto Rosario de Investigación en Ciencias de la Educación - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (IRICE-Conicet)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re38.539

Keywords:

technology, self-managed projects, autonomy

Abstract

Based on theoretical insights drawn from several philosophers of technology, this paper is aimed to contour useful criteria to analyze the way in which technology works within social organizations other from those distinctive of capitalist societies. We address the ways in which technology is conceived at self-managed enterprises, the ways in which their members interact with technology, being groups of people bonded to rules as equity among their members, reflection about their own praxis, ability to build up and questioning their own regulations. Following that, we ask, does a different social organization demand the employment of different technologies?, if so, which would be their charac¬teristics, in order to be adequate to this new kind of social organizations?
To answer these questions, in this article we analyze the data gathered within an eighteen months fieldwork carried out at a self-managed enterprise which produces front axle and suspension system spare parts for cars.
Some outcomes from the case inform that, even if workers doesn’t question nor make structural changes on technologies they deal with, they do build reckon criteria for those technologies that differs from another productive environments. Furthermore, as collective management is a characteristic feature of these self-managed enterprises, workers have the chance to get involved with decision making process, even about the design of technologies that could be incorporated to production.

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Published

2014-06-15

How to Cite

Miano, M. A. . (2014). Building criteria to analyze technologies within self- managed enterprises . Redes. Journal of Social Studies of Science and Technology, 20(38), 169–191. https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re38.539

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