Citation

Foot R. Travailler 2005; 14(2): 169-206.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005)

DOI

10.3917/trav.014.0169

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Actual automatization of Parisian subway raises up a paradox: when operators are suppressed, engineers conceive a subway protected from passengers but leave subways with operators without any protection. This dissymmetrical treatment is stranger because of tacit acquiescence apparently found in the side of operators. Understanding this strange situation implies to analyse during a long time the way in which engineers and operators compose their community of actions, through process of automatization of work and conflicts. In the heart of this dynamics, fear of passenger's accident and suicide appears as a decisive element, however it remains on most cases " unexpressed ", except under the frame of technical object, during development of a defensive strategy of driving as a profession.

Language: fr

Keywords

Suicide; Fear; Automatic driving; Meteor; Social conflicts; Subway