Among transformations developed for the New Public Management (NPM), highlights the reconfiguration of the institutionality through new organization forms as networks arise from Public Private Partnerships (PPP Networks), in which different private workers participate in labor processes of public action (Hvid, Lund & Pejtersen, 2008; Pliscoff & Araya, 2012).
PPP Networks have required incorporations of a variety of tools that allow the government of labor processes, as contracts, bidding rules, indicators and data bases that finally organize the activity of diverse workers (Hood, 1991; Halpern, Lascoumes y Le Gales, 2014; Salamon, 2000).
Working with tools has implicated a reconfigure of public workers, required new generic management skills, deformed and hybridized in many cases the professional know how of workers (Dominelli, 1996; Kletz, Hénaut, & Sardas, 2014; Noordergraaf, 2015).
This presentation analyzes the impact of labor processes governed by tools in public-private worker subjectivities. Starting from two case studies in PPP Networks in the State of Chile, it is observed and described the emergence of a subjectivity position instrumented, which gives a particular sense about the work activity and a self-image as worker that allows positioning in a specific form in front of users, the State and the other workers in networks.
The position instrumented accounts for an identity narrative built for structural, discursive and interactional interpellations, which are defined by public action tools, being a space of continuity and coherence as well as subjectivity tension and contradiction. These results regarding public action workers account of complexities of contemporaneous flexible work.
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