International Labour Process Conference Stockholm, th of March 2012 Michel Freyssenet, CNRS, GERPISA, Paris

1. The initial core of Labour Process Theory ° intellectual division of labour ° stages of capitalism 2. Origins of desinterest ° misunderstanding and confusions ° change of era 3. An opportunity to re-boost the debate 2

1. Three consequences of the mix of IDL, taylorism, fordism and fragmentation of tasks °regrouping of tasks = reversal of IDL °fordism against taylorism not perceived ° contradiction of IDL ignored 3

2. The capitalist technical change ° the initial deficiencies of the thesis ° how do automated machines deskill work in capitalist enterprises? ° the social presuppositions of automated machines designers ° a performant and skilling automation… ° contradictory with capital labour relationship 3. Significant progress 4

1. New priority for workers and researchers 2. To dumb IDL thesis? 3. Regulationnist thesis and after-fordism 4. Lean production fairy tale 5

5. Productive models 6. The challenge for IDL theory 7. Some research directions 6

1. The nature of the crisis 2. The capital-labour relationship is a manner to live together 3. Why do the other social relationships regress? 4. The IDL at the source of capitalism inefficiency 7

Two conjectures 1. A new social relationship could be developped 2. The end of work 8