The Spirit of Capitalism According to the Michelin Company by Corine Védrine

Author:Corine Védrine
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319966106
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

While for some the Michelin schools were a place of confinement or what they call “formatting”, for many others they provided a “shaping” “moral blanket”, to use Mr. Miran’s words. The strict teaching was instrumental in establishing a framework with rules, benchmarks, limits but also and especially a line of conduct that differentiates between good and evil, what should or should not be done, what one should or should not be, what one should or should not think, what one should or should not become. These benchmarks, as stringent as they may be, are however practical and reassuring in that they make it possible, in exchange for a more or less appreciated discipline, to be steered, to know who one is and where one is going. What should be emphasised here is the pupils’ and the employees’ capacity to assess what they get in return for giving oneself over to the company. It is not a matter of obedient stultifying but rather a sacrifice to be guaranteed protection and attention:My young son has been to the Michelin school and without question, there was a time in his life where the Michelin system got him out of a tight spot, thanks to the rigour discipline and the ideas they put in his head, otherwise he’d only have a vocational qualification. (Mr. Gaillard, retired executive, aged 72)

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