Abstract
By looking at tourism, textiles, and call centres in Tunisia, this article analyses the complex relationships between capitalism and political discipline. Starting from the tradition of Weber and Foucault, it shows that the multiplicity of the meanings of capitalist work and the plurality of the ways in which people live with their work stem from a deep heterogeneity in the perceptions of reality: at the same time discipline and freedom, submission and access to some sorts of freedom, rigidity and new latitude for action. In this way, capitalist labour relations can at the same time serve for domination and erode its effects. The analysis that is offered, based on extended fieldwork in Tunisia, suggests the multiplicity and the plasticity of relationships between the technologies of power, the development of the productive forces, and the methods of economic and political regulation.
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