Mecanismos de poder en el trabajo informacional: la disciplina y el control en los procesos productivos de software

grounded in a empirical fact, this paper aims to contribute to the featuring of authority mechanisms that are deployed in software production processes. methodologically, it rests in twenty-four in-depth interviews with it workers, from the city of buenos aires. the heterogeneity of the production processes here analyzed, suggest that while control accomplishes a new and important role, in many cases the discipline remains, and it creates relations with the first mechanism, in varying combinations, depending on the observed process.