The authors examine wages and working conditions in meat processing and confectionery in France. Working there may not require much skill, or command good wages and working conditions, but this article reveals a more complex, positive situation than expected, thanks to the "French model's"...

Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact at work. It concentrates on organizational practices and pulls together three separate domains that are rarely looked at together: sociomateriality,...

We investigate the impact of new work practices and information and communication technologies (ICT) on working conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for the year 1998. New work practices include the use of quality norms, job rotation,...

The subject of this work of comparative literature is to study what can justify the parallel developments between the analysis on Organizational Stress an the research on Labor Psychodynamics. We underline the contrasts between the scientific ans the philosophic reflexions, about these two...

La question du mal-être au travail, que ce soit sous l’angle du stress ou des suicides au travail récemment médiatisés, a brutalement fait irruption dans l’agenda stratégique des dirigeants. Afin d’améliorer la santé des salariés et de promouvoir leur bien être, il est utile de...