GLOBALIZATION, IDEOLOGIES ABOUT WORK AND WORK CULTURES

Abstract

Every people along their lives have to deal with a threefold framework: production relationships, sex-gender relationships and interethnic relationships. At the same time those relationships produce a threefold identity: production, gender and ethnic cultures. Work cultures are produced by collectives of workers starting from experiences they have shared at a certain work process under concrete conditions of production. The author inquires about how those work cultures are affected by major processes. First, the globalization of capital. Second, the new forms and working conditions -precarious and deregulated- who are becoming widely known in the First World, leading to the segmentation of workers. Third the formation and spreading among workers of an hegemonic ideology, that looks at the market as an uncontested absolute. In that way conditions are created for the breaking of the keynesian contract, and for the destruction of Welfare State. And a society emerges who is sharply divided between those who remain integrated, those who survive in precariousness and those who are excluded at last.