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This work describes how the Diagnostic Tool that seeks to Enrich Labor Functions (HDEFL), works in Latin America, adapted from the Model of the Job Characteristics Theory (MCP) of Hackman and Oldham (1974 and its various reviews) and based on research on labor structures carried out during 10 years in Argentina by Genoud, Broveglio and Picasso (2014, 2018). The interdisciplinary integrative approach to work design, allows to identify what characteristics of work design (CDT, motivational, social and contextual variables), activate three critical psychological states (EPC), conditioning the results of work (RT) in workers, in terms of behavior, attitudes and well-being. The typology of the study is exploratory, descriptive and explanatory; it seeks to encourage transdisciplinary interpretative cuts in the organizational studies anchored in the Sociology of Work, Administration sciences and Organizational Psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses, first, the strong institutionalization process in sociology as a discipline in Latin America in recent decades, with an increasing number of undergraduate courses, as well as a large and successful development of high-level training within MSc and PhD graduate programmes. This community has a large and diversified production, published mainly in regional journals. Second, the author uses the example of sociology of work, her own field of research, to show how Latin American sociological production can and should make an important contribution to the mainstream debate in the area. Of this large body of work produced by sociologists of work in the region, the article discusses two examples: research on gender and work in Latin America, and more recent research on flexible production, showing how the findings and analysis of Latin American sociology of work are important in making concepts richer and more complex and in understanding many recent phenomena in developed countries. Finally, the author outlines some of the challenges that remain to bring this large body of work to the attention of the international sociological community. How to integrate and to tap this large body of knowledge of great quality and interest is one of the challenges faced by the International Sociological Association. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on work in Latin America has in many ways followed the region's struggles with economic development. As countries deal with globalization pressures, switching from import substitution state-driven development to export policies sustained by privatization, much has changed in the workplace of Latin Americans. Recently, that has translated into a growing body of literature on work in the region, with much of it reflecting the efforts of a new generation of Latin American scholars. Unfortunately, most of their work is yet to be circulated among scholarly circles in the United States. This article is an effort to provide U.S. researchers in the area with an overview of what is being done in sociology of work in Latin America, especially the research lines that have developed in the past 20 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article on the development of the sociology of work in Latin America addresses changes in the main themes, interdisciplinary relationships, and research methodologies during three periods, beginning in the 1950s. During this era, the themes shifted from modernization, to working-class organization under democracy and dictatorship, and, most recently, to structural adjustment and economic globalization. The sociology of work has become increasingly linked to other social sciences, history, management, and industrial engineering. Researchers use an array of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. Current challenges for the discipline in Latin America include the relationships between the labor process and labor markets, and between intrafirm processes and interfirm connections, and the introduction of gender and labor culture perspectives into the analysis of new production paradigms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This overview of the recent intellectual history of the sociology of work in Latin America contextualizes this history in economic globalization and restructuring and political institutions in Latin America. The three-stage intellectual history addresses the development of a Latin American discipline whose theoretical models and empirical research strategies reflect cross- national similarities and variations in work, workers, and workplaces within Latin America and questions the acritical application of European and North American theoretical and research approaches. The analysis also describes the important role of social networks in the institutionalization of the discipline, including the establishment of the Latin American Sociology of Work Association in 1993. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]