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Fighting for a Fair Wage

The Changing Demands of the Chinese Working Class

by Chloé Froissart & translated by Michael C. Behrent, 7 March

This essay analyzes the major strike that occurred at the Nanhai Honda factory in Guangdong province in 2010, as well as subsequent strikes that followed its example. It traces the evolution of (...)

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Liberty, Security, Flexibility

About: Bénédicte Zimmermann, Ce que travailler veut dire, Economica.

by Elodie Béthoux & translated by Susannah Dale, 16 February 2012

Sociologist Bénédicte Zimmerman’s empirical studies of employer groups and participative management reveals how the tension that exists between the individual and the collective is being reshaped in (...)

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Disorder in Modernity

About: R. White, Railroaded. The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, W.W. Norton & Company.

by Evelyne Payen-Variéras, 8 December 2011

Historians of business have looked at the development of railroads in the U.S. as a time of “managerial revolution.” Richard White’s latest book shows the role played by disorder and sheer (...)

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Culture of poverty and Social Resilience

An interview with Michele Lamont

by Nicolas Duvoux & Elise Tenret & Nadège Vezinat, 20 May 2011

In this interview, Michele Lamont explains different facets of her intellectual work. She comments on the cultural sociology she practices and on her urge to both understand how individuals make (...)

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Deconstructing Work

About: M. Lallement, Le Travail sous tensions, Editions Sciences humaines.

by Dominique Méda, 4 February 2011

Is work in itself a bad thing? Not at all, according to Michel Lallement, who uses a fine brush to paint an ideology-free portrait of the various forms taken by work today in response to economic (...)

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The French Social Welfare Model, as Seen from the Polders

by Antoine Bevort, 26 January 2011

For the Dutch, the French social model seems particularly generous. However, no real comparison is possible if the facts are taken out of context. The understanding of the Dutch proverb ‘To live (...)

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The Collateral Victims of the RSA

by Hélène Périvier, 12 January 2011

The RSA (Active Solidarity Income) is supposed to reduce poverty by one third between now and 2012. It is based on the observation that work doesn’t pay enough to keep some people out of poverty. (...)

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The Intelligence of the Hand

About: M. Crawford, Éloge du carburateur. Essai sur le sens et la valeur du travail, La Découverte.

by Marie Duru-Bellat, 7 January 2011

Ex-philosopher Matthew Crawford celebrates the virtues of manual labor, lamenting the alienation that he argues is inherent in ostensibly intellectual occupations. Crawford is convinced that only (...)

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Challenging Family Rhythms

About: L. Lesnard, La famille désarticulée. Les nouvelles contraintes de l’emploi du temps, PUF.

by Christophe Giraud, 29 December 2010

Transformations of work disrupt family time. Relying on a rigorous statistical approach, Laurent Lesnard draws attention to the consequences produced in family life by the turmoil of atypical (...)

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Wages, taxation system and distribution of domestic chores

by Elena Stancanelli, 20 March 2009

Domestic chores and paid work are unequally distributed between men and women. Elena Stancanelli shows that the taxation system has an impact on the allocation of chores between spouses. Joint (...)

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Labour force participation of women and « marriage market » in the USA

by Shoshana Grossbard, 20 March 2009

In the USA, husbands are on average two years older than their wives. When people born during a baby boom are ready to get married, there are more women on the “marriage market” than men, their (...)

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The quality of work in Europe

About: D. Gallie, Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work, Oxford University Press.

by Jean-Claude Barbier, 23 January 2009

The collective work edited by Duncan Gallie addresses a key issue: can the quality of employment be compared at international level? The authors narrow employment quality down to five dimensions, (...)

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