Il cambiamento del paradigma organizzativo nel 20° secolo: aicune ripercussioni suite convinzioni profonde.

In a prevailing autobiographical style the paper expounds the passage from a Tayloristic paradigm in industrial work as fashionable in the sixties and seventies to a new Fordist paradigm in the eighties. Whereas the Tayloristic paradigm led to a post-Taylorist scenario based upon job reskilling, the Fordist paradigm suggests a post-Fordism characterized in the main by deregulation and flexibility. Post-Fordist sociology also involves a "squinting" view consisting in an implicit Western-centred vision of globalization essentially manifesting itself in some typical developments such as emphasis on trust, organizational rationality and work meaning. The paper closes outlining changes in student communities that reflect the epochal transformation occurred in the working world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]