Interview: Yves Schwartz

Abstract

Yves Schwartz, member of the France University Institute (IUF) and scientific director of the Department of Ergology of the Université de Provence. Among his works we point out Expérience et connaissance du travail (Méssidor/ Eds. Sociales, 1988), Travail et philosophie: convocations mutuelles (Tolouse, Octarès, 1992) e Le paradigme ergologique ou um métier de philosophe (Tolouse, Octarès, 2000). Since the 1990's, he develops a cooperation with research groups at Fiocruz (Post-graduate in Public Health, sub-area Health, Work and Environment), at UERJ (Post-graduate in Social Psychology, in Literature & Languages and College of Engineering), at UFF (Post-graduate in Production Engineering and Psychology), at Unirio, at UFRJ (Post-graduate in Production Engineering) and at UFRRJ. This interview was held on October 2005. In it, Yves Schwartz discusses some of the main concepts of the ergological perspective, in addition to pointing out historical and theoretical-methodological aspects related to the emergency of this perspective in France in the 80's. The ergological perspective developed through the "three-pole dynamic device", associates, on an original manner, research professionals to workers in the investigation of the "world of work" and its transformations. Among other influences, he highlights the collaboration with the research-intervention group of Ivar Oddone and the influence of the work of Georges Canguilhem.