Abstract
In this article I explore the possibilities opened by the contributions of Luc Boltanski and co-authors and of Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval for the analytical repertoire of Brazilian labor sociology, treating them within the debate on the “labor process,” of foremost importance in national and international sociology of the 1970s and 1980s. The path chosen was to use the categories of “control” and “consent,” typical of that debate, as keys to the analysis of contemporary contributions. The article pursues a double objective: 1) to make explicit how the commented authors can contribute to make each of the notions sharper for the analysis of the contemporary labor process - to the extent that their arguments on the production of agreements (Boltanski and co-authors) and on the “subjective subsumption” of labor to capital (Dardot and Laval) can be read as unfoldings of each one - as much as to point out the political sociologies that derive from the adoption of “control” or “consent” as a central element in the analysis of labor.
KEYWORDS:
Labor process; Hegemony; Control; Consent; Political sociology of work