La reconnaissance de la qualification dans le travail ouvrier : l’expérience est-elle une compétence ?

• Main Author: Séverine Misset
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Les éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme 2007-10-01
• Series: Cahiers de la Recherche sur l'Education et les Savoirs
• Subjects: Classification systems; Competence; Qualification; Recognition of experience; Skilled workers
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/cres/1019

This paper is based upon fieldwork conducted in four steel factories. All four factories belong to a French firm in which blue collar workers’ classification systems are currently under negotiation. The lack of recognition of experience for senior skilled workers is analysed, as this situation leads to a conflict between senior and junior skilled workers on how to define the appropriate qualification criteria. The new competence-based classification systems under negotiation seem to go along the same lines. Skilled workers are made vulnerable by these classification systems, as individual requirements prevail.