Sociologie du travail

Regulation and competition among schools in six European localities - C. Maroy, A. van Zanten

Sociologie du travail — 2009-05-12T13:27:00Z

Christian Maroy
Girsef and Anthropology and Sociology Unit, University of Louvain, 1, place Montesquieu, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Agnès van Zanten
Sociological Observatory of Change, Sciences Po Paris, CNRS, 27, rue Saint-Guillaume, 75337 Paris cedex 07, France
Available online 12 May 2009 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2009.01.005
Abstract
According to this analysis of the dynamics of competition in six school zones in Europe (Charleroi, Budapest, Lisbon, London, (…)

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The professional fate of woman engineers in the computer sciences : Unexpected reversals - H. Stevens

Sociologie du travail — 2009-04-23T13:51:00Z

Hélène Stevens
Centre de sociologie du travail, de l'emploi et de la formation, université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 124, 44, avenue Jeanne, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Laboratoire Printemps, université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 47, boulevard Vauban, 78047 Guyancourt, France
Available online 23 April 2009 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2009.01.001
Abstract
In the late 1970s, major changes in techniques and the job structure paved the way for women engineers to (…)

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The Household Employees Union in Rio : A vantage point for observing changes in domestic service workers' employment in Brazil - D. Vidal

Sociologie du travail — 2009-02-24T14:56:00Z

Dominique Vidal
Université Paris-Diderot–Paris-7, URMIS, Paris, France
Available online 23 February 2009 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2009.01.002
Abstract
Studying the policies implemented by the Household Employees Union in Rio de Janeiro shows that when new social rights are extended to domestic service workers, it gives them a new sense of justice, leading to a growing number of lawsuits against employers. However, given the role it is made to play in the Brazilian (…)

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Because the market says so. Brokers and managers in the electricity industry - D. Lorrain

Sociologie du travail — 2009-02-23T14:34:00Z

Dominique Lorrain
Centre d'études des mouvements sociaux (CEMS), CNRS–EHESS, 54, boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France
Available online 23 February 2009 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2009.01.004
Abstract
The role played in the electricity industry by the finance industry has received too little attention in research on the liberalization of technical networks. Three arguments are brought forward. First of all, despite any rational argumentation, these intermediaries must (…)

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A profession in process : The atypical rise of women to the high rank of Police “Commissaire” in France - G. Pruvost

Sociologie du travail — 2009-02-22T14:42:00Z

Geneviève Pruvost
Centre de recherche sociologique sur le droit et les institutions pénales (CESDIP), immeuble Edison, 43, boulevard Vauban, 78280 Guyancourt, France
Available online 23 February 2009 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2009.01.003
Abstract
There are more women at the top of the hierarchy than in the lower ranks of the French Police, and it is easier for them to enter the “virile brigades” as officers than as rank and file. Besides, there are no great differences (…)

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