Disciplina fabril y estrategias de dominación corporal en una corporación automotriz transnacional

Abstract

This ethnographic research relates capitalist discipline and labour resistance
through body dimension. On the shopfloors of PSA Peugeot-Citröen Argentina,
we discover a variety of dominant strategies bodily situated which constrain the
experience of each worker (factory codes, rules, disciplinary suspensions), a direct
confrontation, a mechanism of power that exploit, dislocate and reconstruct the
body profitably. Even though the factory discipline inscribes forms of dominance
through the body, it is necessary to understand how workers resist being reduced
to them. Oppositional tactics appear, incidental ways of protest inside the
automotive labour process. Those practices of everyday life show an active cultural
struggle in contexts of domination, subordination and insubordination.