摘要：This paper analyzes the effects of globalization and of productive restructuring on production, on the employees involved in industries that employ continuous processes and on the .unions of the pulp and paper sector. The restructuring has reached a broad scope: going from the restructuring of the production chains, on an international scale, to the redefinition of the management strategies of the industries, and reaching beyond the industries internal boundaries through the changes brought on with respect to the communities and the companies that make up the supply chain and, also taking into consideration the reformulation of the strategies taken up by the unions. "Technical" management decisions that conceal a "political" dimension have altered the relationships of power among the bosses, engineers and other employees.
