Masculinities in the software industry in Argentina

Abstract

In the year 2017 we initiate a research in companies of productive processes linked with software in Argentina. Some authors support that the organizational forms of labour characterized as Toyotist or post-Fordist find their more elaborate expression in the industry of software. In the frame of this industry, our intention for this paper is to investigate the construction forms of the worker's profile, taking again the assumption of which the business policies invigorate notions that make up gender positions. To this respect, we try to uncover and to problematize the meaning around the notions of gender in the industry of software, for understanding the power rules which are deployed in these labour areas where the companies are active actors in the building-up of the business hegemony. Specifically, we are interested in approaching the particular notion of masculinity that is constructed, provided that it is a labour in which is not required the physical effort, the resistance, the strength, as happens in other activities. On the contrary, prevail a "young culture" always renewed and for moments infantilizated. To this respect, we find that in the industry of software not only operate notions not traditional regarding masculinity, but also that we could affirm that the consolidation of a particular industrial discipline stregthens a not hegemonic masculinity, according to the needs of the labour process. Our proposal, is to place the gaze into the male workers in the industry of software and to analise the relationship between masculinity and industrial discipline.