Corporations and pedagogical devices: the training strategy of de capital

The article focuses on the study of the processes of labor discipline in Argentine subsidiaries of large corporations. We argue that these processes are related to corporate pedagogical devices that extend inside the factory and beyond its borders. Specifically we delve into the complex linkages between the consolidation of corporate hegemony and corporate pedagogical devices. Thus, we study these various complex and linked devices that enable the corporate doctrine’s transpositions to everyday work. The paper provides conceptual and empirical advances and presents findings from research conducted in a steel and automotive company, according to a qualitative perspective and multiple case study methodology. We analyze the consolidated corporate systems and we highlight the central role of corporate training and the formation of collaborative and competes / competitive employees in its implementation. Similarly, we emphasize the extension of corporate systems in the extra-productive scenarios through Corporate Social Responsibility practices.