The present article aims to contribute to the emerging stream of post-disciplinary studies in the field of management and organization research. By evidencing the growing importance that apparatuses of security play in late modern social settings, this stream of thought has developed in reaction to the tendency for scholars to reduce Foucault’s contribution to management to the understanding of disciplinary apparatuses and their associated forms of domination. Drawing on a genealogical study of the practices developed around workplace accidents in the French construction industry over the 20th century, we actually show the strong intertwining of both types of apparatuses and put to light the mechanisms by which they nourish each other. We thus contend that any single apparatus can hardly be grasped in isolation from the others it connects to and that critical attempts oriented toward the resistance to current complex forms of domination may gain from acknowledging this.
