Archives par mot-clé : working employment

Cambridge E.U. versus Cambridge G.B.Two segmentationnist approaches facing the 1980s turning point

This article critically looks over segmentationnist interpretations of changes in the labour market structure from the 1970s to the 1990s. Our analysis focused on institutionalist segmentationist theories as they were traditionally the most developed. We distinguished two strains, one grounded in Cambridge, U.K. the other in Cambridge U.S., which interpretation diverge in an interesting way. This will lead us to study the link between the definition of a theoretical framework and facts interpretation.

Petit.H,  Socio-Économie du Travail n°23 (Économies et Sociétés, tome XXXVIII), janvier 2004, p.1-26.

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To understand that « a worker is variable » : age, schedules and work activity on a quality control workstation

This article deals with the variability of individuals in their working activity : variability linked to circadian fluctuations (depending on hours), and age-related processes (deficiencies on the one hand, building up experience on the other hand). Scientific results, out of physiological and psychological research, are synthetized here, and provide a framework for a case study, focusing on a quality control workstation in the steel industry.

Pueyo.V, Volkoff.S, Socio-Économie du Travail n°24 (Économies et Sociétés, tome XXXVIII), novembre 2004, p.1961-1991.

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Female factory workers in the automobile industry: What are their recruitment and working conditions?

Women continue to reject factory jobs and today they only represent 20 % of factory workers in France. This article, based on a case study, rests on interviews carried out since the beginning of this century with factory managers, trade unions officials and both male and female factory workers in the automobile industry (car makers and suppliers). In this industry, tasks traditionally given to women have been, to a great extent, relocated in low wages countries.  Female workers now do jobs that are mixed or in the main done by men, but which are not very enhanced and often precarious.  Women accepted them or applied for them a a second best. All the female workers who were interviewed in 2006, whatever their age and professional path, have diseases linked to their working conditions.

Gorgeu.A, Mathieu.R, Socio-Économie du Travail n°31 (Économies et Sociétés, tome XLIII), septembre 2009, p. 1503-1529.

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