ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the patterns of adjustment which bind the individuals within each of the three main groups and proposes a first interpretation of the power-relations arrangements that maintain the equilibrium of the social system. The reviews of the kinds of adjustment people make to the organizational givens and to the formal authority system has permitted the authors to analyze only the more stable and undifferentiated aspects of the social system at the shop level. The chapter focuses on the relationships between the most important groupings, and the occupational categories. Three groups are represented at the shop level: the production workers, the maintenance workers, and the foremen or lower supervisors. Supervisors are passive and workers tolerant. Some provision is still necessary for giving sanctions to the system as a whole, and the roles of the director and assistant director still carry some power. New power relationships develop around the loopholes in the regulatory system.
