Abstract

PULIDO-MARTINEZ, Hernán Camilo. Producing modern workers: psychological knowledge and the world of work in the south. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2007, vol.6, n.1, pp. 27-38. ISSN 1657-9267.

This article considers the relationship established between psychology and the production of workers as subjects in the "third world". It is pointed out that the celebratory attitude of psychologists in regards to the dissemination of the psychological knowledge avoids the analysis of its neo-colonial dimensions. Some of these dimensions, when the psychological knowledge contributes to the construction of workers’ subjectivity in developing countries as the "other" in need of being psychologically transformed or "modernized" in order to the achievement of national development, are illustrated and analyzed. Possible paths to continue researching the neo-colonial dimensions of psychology in the world of work are suggested.

Keywords : Critical psychology; Industrial/organizational psychology; subjectivity; Modernization; Colonialism; National development.

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