Entrevista: Danièle Linhart

Abstract

Sociologist Danièle Linhart is a professor at Paris X Nanterre University and a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR), which has ties to the GTM/CRESSPA Laboratory of Gender, Work, and Mobility, at the Paris Center for Sociological and Political Research. She conducts research on the changes in the organization and management of work at modern enterprises, and has authored several books dealing with this issue, such as the collection published in Brazil in 2007 titled A desmedida do capital (The imbalance of capital). She is the coordinator, in France, of the Capes-Cofecub international cooperation agreement that involves the College of Education of the University of Campinas (Unicamp). This interview took place in ambit of the development of activities relating to the cooperation between the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and CNRS with regard to studies on the relationship among gender, health, and work. In this interview, Linhart discusses what she calls the difficulty of work, analyzing the modernization processes that are currently underway. She also deals with subjective aspects of the present productive world, and reflects on the recent cases of suicide in French companies.