Abstract:
This professional Master s dissertation deals with the following theme: dehumanizing
nature of work in organizations of production and consumption in the context of
industrialized society and technology. The research is done by means of literature
delineating the research object through a clipping historical and sociological analysis of
the concept of work inserted in the historical and social transformations of the industrial
revolutions of modern thought and progress in those sectors of production and
consumption . Therefore, the questions for the development of work in capitalist
society, the factors that indicate the dehumanization of work within organizations, the
influence of society on organizational models and management models that have been
proposed throughout history organizations provide delineation methodological research.
Due to this framework brought some conclusions, among which we highlight: the
influence of Protestantism. From this religiosity gains a new sense of personal
relationship with God, and the Christian life is to be lived and experienced in the world.
The work is a duty, a service to God and to men and laziness must be rejected. On the
other hand, precisely in the Industrial Revolution that the work will be consolidated as a
factor of suffering. There is a whole historical development, for example, takes the field
worker and puts in the industry. And the industry is that he knows the suffering.
Suffering reaches the worker in its entirety, from various aspects of life in the industries
and organizations of capitalist production: The work environment, routine and
repetition, omission of suffering in the workspace for companies. Thus, it was
concluded that the human dignity transcends your desktop, and your happiness involves
a lifetime.
