{"id":2396,"date":"2026-09-18T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:50:07","slug":"democratic-work-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iscidenetimi.net\/?p=2396&lang=fr","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexis Cukier, <em>Democratic Work: Radical Democracy and the Future of Labour<\/em>, trad. Jean-Charles Khalifa et Brendan Prendiville, Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 198 p. ISBN : 978-3-031-27855-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Democratic Work: Radical Democracy and the Future of Labour<\/em> est une \u00e9tude approfondie de <strong>la relation entre la d\u00e9mocratisation du travail et la d\u00e9mocratisation de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9<\/strong>. Le point de d\u00e9part fondamental d\u2019Alexis Cukier est l\u2019id\u00e9e que la d\u00e9mocratie ne peut \u00eatre confin\u00e9e \u00e0 une sph\u00e8re ext\u00e9rieure \u00e0 la vie professionnelle. L\u2019auteur utilise le concept de \u00ab travail d\u00e9mocratique \u00bb pour d\u00e9signer \u00e0 la fois le contr\u00f4le d\u00e9mocratique des conditions, des moyens et des finalit\u00e9s du travail, ainsi que la contribution que le travail d\u00e9mocratis\u00e9 peut apporter \u00e0 une d\u00e9mocratisation plus large de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9. Le livre va donc au-del\u00e0 de l\u2019octroi d\u2019une plus grande capacit\u00e9 d\u2019expression aux travailleurs sur leur lieu de travail et aborde la r\u00e9organisation d\u00e9mocratique de la production elle-m\u00eame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La premi\u00e8re partie du livre est consacr\u00e9e \u00e0 <strong>une critique d\u00e9mocratique de l\u2019organisation capitaliste du travail<\/strong>. L\u2019exclusion des travailleurs des processus de prise de d\u00e9cision, la fragmentation des possibilit\u00e9s d\u2019action collective, l\u2019ali\u00e9nation, la financiarisation et les formes n\u00e9omanag\u00e9riales d\u2019organisation sont examin\u00e9es conjointement. Selon Cukier, la gestion par logiciel, les \u00e9valuations individualis\u00e9es des performances, les syst\u00e8mes de reporting et d\u2019autres techniques similaires ne sont pas de simples outils d\u2019organisation des processus de travail ; ils fa\u00e7onnent \u00e9galement les possibilit\u00e9s qu\u2019ont les travailleurs d\u2019exercer un contr\u00f4le sur leur propre activit\u00e9. Le livre consid\u00e8re cette transformation comme faisant partie d\u2019un r\u00e9gime de travail n\u00e9olib\u00e9ral plus large, qui englobe \u00e9galement des entreprises de plateforme telles qu\u2019Uber et Deliveroo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dans ce cadre, Cukier accorde une importance particuli\u00e8re \u00e0 <strong>la distinction entre la d\u00e9mocratie sur le lieu de travail et le contr\u00f4le ouvrier et l\u2019autogestion<\/strong>. Il soutient qu\u2019il est insuffisant de limiter la d\u00e9mocratisation \u00e0 la repr\u00e9sentation ou \u00e0 la participation \u00e0 la gestion de l\u2019entreprise ; les travailleurs doivent \u00e9galement pouvoir d\u00e9cider, dans le cadre m\u00eame de leur activit\u00e9 productive, de la mani\u00e8re dont le travail est organis\u00e9, des moyens qui sont utilis\u00e9s et des finalit\u00e9s vers lesquelles la production est orient\u00e9e. Au-del\u00e0 de cela, la d\u00e9mocratisation du travail exige la d\u00e9mocratisation d\u2019institutions ext\u00e9rieures au lieu de travail, notamment le march\u00e9, l\u2019\u00c9tat, la division sociale du travail et l\u2019organisation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dans la derni\u00e8re partie du livre, cette approche est concr\u00e9tis\u00e9e \u00e0 travers <strong>des exp\u00e9riences historiques d\u2019autogestion et de conseils ouvriers<\/strong>. Aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s d\u2019exp\u00e9riences d\u2019autogestion telles que Vio.Me, le livre examine diff\u00e9rentes exp\u00e9riences de contr\u00f4le ouvrier et de conseils, notamment les soviets, les conseils d\u2019usine italiens, le <em>control obrero<\/em> et les <em>cordones industriales<\/em> chiliens. Pour Cukier, l\u2019un des probl\u00e8mes centraux de l\u2019autogestion est de savoir si le contr\u00f4le d\u00e9mocratique peut s\u2019\u00e9tendre au-del\u00e0 des limites des entreprises individuelles. Il d\u00e9fend donc la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9tablir un lien entre l\u2019organisation d\u00e9mocratique sur le lieu de travail et l\u2019organisation d\u00e9mocratique des secteurs \u00e9conomiques et de la vie sociale au sens plus large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cette recherche trouve son expression dans la proposition du livre de <strong>conseils du travail, de conseils \u00e9conomiques et de conseils sociaux<\/strong>. Alors que le contr\u00f4le d\u00e9mocratique au niveau de l\u2019entreprise devrait \u00eatre compl\u00e9t\u00e9 par une coordination d\u00e9mocratique aux niveaux sectoriel et social, Cukier propose \u00e9galement de d\u00e9passer la s\u00e9paration entre le \u00ab travailleur \u00bb et le \u00ab citoyen \u00bb. Les travailleurs seraient ainsi des sujets politiques non seulement en tant que citoyens dans la vie politique, mais \u00e9galement pendant le temps de travail, capables de prendre des d\u00e9cisions concernant les conditions, les moyens et les finalit\u00e9s de la production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00c0 ces diff\u00e9rents \u00e9gards, <em>Democratic Work<\/em> constitue une ressource importante pour <strong>penser le contr\u00f4le ouvrier et l\u2019autogestion au-del\u00e0 du niveau de l\u2019entreprise et en direction d\u2019une organisation d\u00e9mocratique plus large de la production<\/strong>. Plut\u00f4t que de traiter le contr\u00f4le ouvrier simplement comme une question de participation \u00e0 la gestion de l\u2019entreprise, le livre l\u2019aborde comme une question de contr\u00f4le d\u00e9mocratique du processus de travail, des savoirs productifs et des finalit\u00e9s de la production, tout en \u00e9tablissant des liens entre les entreprises autog\u00e9r\u00e9es, les conseils ouvriers, la coordination \u00e9conomique et la prise de d\u00e9cision sociale. Il d\u00e9place ainsi la question centrale au-del\u00e0 du degr\u00e9 de pouvoir de d\u00e9cision dont disposent les travailleurs au sein des structures de production existantes et la formule en termes de <strong>qui doit contr\u00f4ler la production, de quelle mani\u00e8re et \u00e0 quelles fins sociales<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Cukier, Democratic Work: Radical Democracy and the Future of Labour, trad. 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