Sociologie du travail

A generation clash or organisational conflict ? “Two trains arunning - N. Flamant

Sociologie du travail — 2007-12-21T16:17:00Z

Nicolas Flamant
Laboratoire d'anthropologie des institutions et des organisations sociales (LAIOS), UPR 9037, 54, boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France
Available online 21 December 2007 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2007.10.003
Abstract
In a railway marshaling yard, relations between the two principal age-groups (employees in their fifties and young, recent hires) are very tense. Various persons set this down to an obvious generation clash. By observing on-the-job (…)

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Cashiers' work-time : Between a productivity mentality and a service mentality - S. Bernard

Sociologie du travail — 2007-12-21T16:12:00Z

Sophie Bernard
Institutions et dynamiques de l'économie, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Maison Max-Weber, université Paris-X, 200, avenue de-la-République, 92000 Nanterre, France
Available online 21 December 2007 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2007.10.001
Abstract
At first sight, the work-time put in by cashiers at checkout counters seems homogeneous, continuous and repetitive. An empirical study of hypermarket cashiers in France shows, on the contrary, that (…)

- Volume 49, Supplement 2

The local-global firm : Lyonnaise des Eaux, 1980–2004 - D. Lorrain

2007-12-20T16:25:00Z

Dominique Lorrain
Centre d'études des mouvements sociaux, CNRS-EHESS, 54, boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France
Available online 21 December 2007 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2007.10.004
Abstract
This article describes the policy of internationalization conducted by Lyonnaise des Eaux (renamed Suez) and it focuses on the internal transformations during the period from 1980 to 2004 : the stages in these changes, the organizational characteristics and the principles that (…)

- Volume 49, Supplement 2

The “steering state” model : The emergence of a new organizational form in the French Public Administration - P. Bezes

Sociologie du travail — 2007-12-19T16:30:00Z

Philippe Bezes
Centre d'études et de recherches de sciences administratives et politiques (CERSA), CNRS–université Paris-2, 10, rue Thénard, 75005 Paris, France
Available online 21 December 2007 on ScienceDirect
doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2007.10.002
Abstract
Since the 1990s, a new organizational form of the administrative system in France has been steadily redefining relations between central administrations and local units of the state. Labelled “the steering state” or the “managerial (…)

- Volume 49, Supplement 2