[Bodies and minds for work: the psychologization of workers in Bogotá and Medellín, 1946-1991]. / Cuerpos y mentes para el trabajo: la psicologización de los trabajadores en Bogotá y Medellín, 1946-1991.

This article seeks to explore the emergence and development of a series of psychological and managerial discourses on worker motivation, organizational climate and quality of life at work in cities like Bogotá and Medellín. This sheds light on the rise and expansion of psychological knowledge applied to the world of work, aimed at optimizing productivity. Strategies for measurement and quantification were put in place that became tools for objectifying behaviors and encouraging a sort of social and labor re-engineering, within the context of growing labor instability and rising unemployment in the late 1980s and early 1990s.