La sociología del trabajo a través de una relectura de Claude Durand: situación de trabajo, cualificaciones, competencias y clase obrera.

Abstract

Through a re-reading of Claude Durand, and reporting the identity between the goals of his sociology and those described by Salvaing as belonging to the PCF, we rebuild the debate between the school of Friedmann and the sociology of Naville, showing at the same time the continuity of that school regarding the qualification and the working class, and the current topics anchored in the mobilization of competences and the social cohesion. The discourses of the workers’ mobilization based on competence, far from discovering an alleged statement of a natural link between the workers and their work, individualise and naturalise the classifying results of the wage relations, thus showing the processes of social hierarchy as directly depending on the nature of the concrete activities. In this way, the social and political character of the processes of segmentation and stratification, both current and past, become invisible.