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This article focuses on the workerisation process of rural populations facing oil industry in Peru, in Amazonian villages located near a forty-years old oil drilling site. Starting from the “communal enterprise”, a system of jobs allocation that consists in inhabitants’ management of their own workforce, the article scrutinises the range of transformations caused by such a peculiar experience of work, using ethnographic observations and interviews. While underlining new relations to environment, time and discipline within the communal enterprise, it insists on the influence of villagers’ ordinary practices on their experience of work and norms. The analysis of the appropriation of industrial devices, organisations and artefacts thus allows to grasp the scope of the socialisation process, which produces transformative effects on workers, but also on the domestic and village spaces.