Designing Collective Activity: A Way to Workers’ Health

摘要

The aim of this article is to explore the conditions according to which collective activity becomes a health resource. The article especially looks at how work-related rules are rewritten and how this forms a basic condition for developing collective activity and preserving health. After tracing the history behind activity theory, it focuses on collective activity in order to pinpoint the scope, resources and limits of such activity. Finally, it outlines some perspectives relating to the notion of collective activity in terms of ergonomic intervention.