Personal services have attracted considerable attention from policy makers in France, with a view to achieving two objectives: creating jobs and reintegrating those individuals furthest removed from the labour market. Attempts to achieve these objectives have tended to emphasise job quantity at...

<title>Abstract</title> Many works on sustainable development stress the part played by reduced working hours in the promotion of a model for alternative development. The direct link between working hours and the environment, however, still deserves to be supported. This is the issue we would like to discuss...

Among the projects connected with the development of services for persons, the recent measures distinguish not only by their scale but above all by the interest they focus on the structuring of the service offer. One pillar of the present work consists in promoting the action of profit-making...

Les politiques publiques d'encouragement au développement des services à domicile, s'appuient notamment sur la création d'entreprises privées pour professionnaliser le secteur. Le terme de professionnalisation peut cependant recouvrir deux sens très différents. Elle peut être destinée...

Les services à la personne sont au cœur de la politique de l'emploi, en France, depuis plus de vingt ans et tout particulièrement depuis 2005. La volonté d'exploiter un gisement d'emploi a cependant fait privilégier les aspects quantitatifs sur la question de la qualité des emplois....