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This article introduces and comments on a presentation made by Antoine Laville, in 2001, in the framework of a scientific meeting about Alain Wisner's works. His presentation was entitled: "To which human being has work to be adapted? A question which remains relevant for ergonomists". The present article aims to enlighten three elements: sociodemographic context at the period when the paper was published, with an increase of diversity factors inside active population; institutional structuration of research on these issues in France, namely the setting up of the scientific network Creapt, offering new possibilities for lasting partnership between companies and research organisms; and several scientific, epistemological and ethical concerns which Laville had developed for a long time, and which he chose to elicit at that moment, with the prospect of integrating analysis of diversity into ergonomics, as an alternative to selection policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a brief discussion about Work psychology, in Brazil, and its interfaces with the Work clinics and the Worker's health field. Our starting point is the set of papers presented by Brazilian researchers in the "France-Latin America Symposium". A methodological cut has allowed us to elect these disciplinary fields by reading titles, reviews and paper references. The texts showed a significant convergence between the following themes: social and critical orientation, keeping interest in the working subjects ; the complexity and singularities that lead their work experiences ; the processes of constitution, the psychic and political-social commitments of these workers. We believe that a synthesis of the researches presented in this colloquium reflects the current moment of the Work Psychology in Brazil, in its connections with the Work Clinics and the Worker's Health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to clarify the mechanisms of gender-based differentiation in everyday practices of work organization within a profession where employees face a particularly high level of stress: secondary school teaching. It compares France and Spain, two countries where the professional teaching standards differ and ask for a particular commitment at work. Focusing on the results of a qualitative survey, the author gives prime importance to the speeches and representations that individuals use to describe their experiences at work. Taking into account the various working environments (career-related and non career-related), it leads us to observe that, although the impacts are not alike within the two countries studied, gender-differentiated spatial and temporal arrangements have consequences from a health point of view, namely in terms of stress. However, the commonly identified feeling of "overload" remains often unrecognised, or even officially unspeakable, within this profession with a family-friendly reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Desde este ano, espaços de debate sobre a prática do oficio, criados por e para jovens profissionais em ergonomia, foram implementados no Peru. Essa iniciativa baseia-se no fato de que o ergonomista é um trabalhador como qualquer outro, e que, por isso, é necessário discutir a ação realizada diariamente afim de progredir na construção da sua prática futura. Se esses espaços são recentes no Peru, eles existem na França há já 5 anos e são propostos pela comissão "Jeunes Pratiques en Réflexion" da Sociedade de Ergonomia Francesa (SELF). Neste artigo, propomos contar sua gênese, seu funcionamento e os desafios dos seus desenvolvimentos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]