Benjamin Coriat: Selected Summaries: SELECTED SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Summary of: "The workshop and the stopwatch", chapters 1 to 4 and 6, "The workshop and the robot", RY THE ROBOT, chapters 2 and 5, "The challenges of competitiveness", chapters 1 to 3, "Taylorism , Fordism and new technologies in semi-peripheral countries ".

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Sep 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393115885

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Benjamin Coriat: Selected Summaries

SELECTED SUMMARIES

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BENJAMIN CORIAT: SELECTED SUMMARIES

First edition. September 29, 2021.

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ISBN: 978-1393115885

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

SUMMARY OF TEXTS BY BENJAMIN CORIAT | INTRODUCTION

THE WORKSHOP AND THE CHRONOMETER | CHAPTER 1  MANUFACTURING AND THE TRADE

I. The trade as a condition of the industry

II. The trade as an obstacle to capital accumulation

III. The machine, the child, the pieceworker: pre-taylorist practices of struggle against the trade.

CHAPTER 2  THE STANDARD AND THE CHRONOMETER

II. The conditions of the formation of Taylorism: the change in the composition of the American working class.

The open shop campaign: the concerted organization of anti-union and anti-worker militias

III. Taylor's "economic thinking

The U.S. underwent great changes due to a growing industrialization process after the end of the Civil War, with an industrialized Northeast, which from the end of the 18th century took over the national territory. On the other hand, the war, by increasing the demand for armaments, was key to strengthening the process of capital accumulation. In addition, the immigration of labor solved the problem of labor shortage and of a supposed systematic labor idleness, as Taylor stated in the principle of scientific management, a work in which he studied the times and movements of labor.

IV. New work standards

The central idea was to create a general and formal code for the exercise of industrial labor, ensuring the progressive integration of unskilled workers to replace the positions of the professional tradesmen. This would bring about a change in the composition of the working class. From the point of view of abstract labor (the conditions of the formation of exchange values), we observe quantitative changes in the yield of labor. Capital ensured a notable increase in productivity and labor intensity. Marx would say that there is an increase in surplus value, especially relative surplus value.

CHAPTER 3  THE CHAIN | In a report submitted by Renault to the Chamber of Paris in 1847, it was stated that ...by reducing the intervals of rest to the minimum possible (one would arrive at the idea that) perfection in matter would be to work always....

A) The birth of the chain

I. The virtues of war | We read in a bulletin of the Renault factories, in 1918, that ...when this war is over (referring to the First World War, 1914-18), the other one will begin, the economic war....

II. Chain Conveyors, Belt Conveyors and Assembly Lines

One of the objectives of this principle is to ensure the circulation of a set of parts in front of the workers who are still at their work stations. One of the advantages results from the economy of labor, maintenance and the authoritative regulation of the work rate.

B) New productivity and production standards

III. New productivity standards

CHARACTERISTICS OF FORDISM IN RELATION TO THE | TECHNIQUES OF EXTORTION OF SURPLUS LABOR

IV. New production standards

a)  Standardization and transformation of scale standards.

ASPECTS OF "STANDARDIZATION

b) Fixed capital, working capital and cycle of productive capital | From the perspective of abstract labor and exchange value, the transformation is not minor. While the assembly line makes possible an increase in the output of labor, it also makes possible an acceleration of productive capital. This leads Ford to carry out production practically without deposits. Now the vagrancy of materials is reduced.

economic advantages of the conveyor belt or | assembly line

CHAPTER  4  NEW PRODUCTION STANDARDS

Standardization and transformation of scale standards.

Fixed capital, working capital and productive capital cycle

CHAPTER 6  THE "MODERN TIMES

I. From the 1920s to the 1930s: norms and crisis

II. Keynes: the New Deal and the Plan-State: the capitalist response to the crisis

1. The law of supply and demand, trade unions and equilibrium.

2. The State and the new labor policy

THE WORKSHOP AND THE ROBOT | PREFACE: THE ENGINEERS OF TIME

PROLOGUE: A NEW HISTORICAL JUNCTURE

1- Organization: the emergence of new concepts

2- Products and markets: increasing quality and differentiation

3- Technologies: a true technical system.

CHAPTER 2  THE POSTFORDISM WORKSHOPS

I- Between technological innovations and organizational innovations

II- The simplest: the automated fordian line (form I)

1- Technological principles and contents of the line

2- Differences between this form of automation and the previous ones

3- Interests and economic limits of rigid integration

III- The contribution of logistics: the asynchronous assembly line or computerized Taylorian line (form II)

1- Principles and technical contents of the LAM form

2- Descriptive of the LAM | Main differences between Forms I and II

3- LAM savings and logistics revolution

IV- The flexible integrated line (form III)

1- Principles and technical composition of the flexible integrated line

2- Savings from flexible integrated lines

V- The planning and input management revolutions: KAN-BAN AND MRP (FORM IV)

1- The Japanese Kan-Ban method: a new concept of production organization

2- MRP: Material Requirement Planning (Production Resource Management) or computerized planning management.

3- Economics of Kan-Ban and MRP

VI- A wide variety of forms

CHAPTER 5  THE DIVISION OF LABOR

I- A displacement effect: redistributed concrete work

1- Relative dissipation of direct work

2- Extension of indirect labor

3- Approximation and interpenetration of direct labor and indirect labor.

4- Upgrading of management tasks in the workshop.

II- A reclassification effect

1- Categories subject to, or under threat of, an exclusion process

2. Young people in technical education

3. Young people by trade

2- Unstable categories

1. Professional workers

Supervision

3- The valued categories | 1. Laborers-operators handling automated systems.

2. Production technicians

III- An organizational effect: post-Aylorist workers' figures

1- Computer-aided Taylorization: routinized abstraction and complexity (Model 1) | 1. The marginalized worker

2. The worker-detector

3. The trivialized worker

2- The shift towards qualification and competence: abstraction and complexity assumed (Model 2)

1. The manufacturing worker

2. The technologist worker

3. The worker-manager

Iv- Two contrasting models

THE CHALLENGES OF COMPETITIVENESS | CHAPTER 1  ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND MACROECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF COMPETITIVENESS

1.1. Globalization and its significance for competitiveness

1.2 Innovation and its characteristics in the era of globalization

1.3. New market constraints and the twelve dimensions of competitiveness

The twelve dimensions of competitiveness

Job

Capital

Non-cost elements

Concluding remarks

CHAPTER 2  COMPETITIVENESS

Determinants of the current change

The contents of the change

The effects of these changes on work quality

The different scenarios for the evolution of organizational models

First scenario: imposed involvement

Second scenario: the incited involvement

Third scenario: negotiated involvement

Negotiated involvement (German model)

Concluding remarks

About unemployment

CHAPTER 3  INDUSTRIAL POLICY, BUSINESS ORGANIZATION MODELS AND COMPETITIVENESS | Concepts and definitions

Macroeconomics and industrial policy

Macroeconomic conditions for industrial policy

Industrial policy

Industrial policy models

Technology policy and globalization

The role of the State in the era of globalization

TAYLORISM, FORDISM AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN SEMI-PERIPHERAL COUNTRIES

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SUMMARY OF TEXTS BY BENJAMIN CORIAT

INTRODUCTION

We propose to take a look at some selected texts by the French economist Benjamin Coriat.

We will analyze some of the key texts of this author, namely:

THE WORKSHOP AND THE CHRONOMETER, chapters 1 to 4 and 6

THE WORKSHOP AND THE ROBOT, chapters 2 and 5

COMPETITIVENESS CHALLENGES, chapters 1 to 3

Taylorism, Fordism and new technologies in semi-peripheral countries.

THE WORKSHOP AND THE CHRONOMETER

CHAPTER 1  MANUFACTURING AND THE TRADE

Throughout the 19th century, manufacturers were obsessed with getting skilled and disciplined workers, and the truth is exposed: