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The Corpus of this delivery is interested in ‘legal professionals’ working in different branches of activity, with a variety of statuses. This dossier shows that the tools and concepts of the sociology of work make it possible to rework issues which both the sociology of the law and the sociology of professions make it difficult to deal with, and that it is therefore possible to study in a common way a whole group of workers with shared rights in their activities, beyond group regulations and the nature of jobs. The specificity of the legal dimension of the activities of these various actors and their relationship with it lies at the heart of Corpus. On the basis of the tools and paradigms of sociology of work, several articles in the file study the service relationships between a number of professionals (lawyers in family or social law, notaries, judges for the enforcement of sentences, etc.) and litigants. Other articles deal with lawyers further away from the canonic definition, but who are faced with complex challenges, be it the specific features of the activity of lawyer in a company, in a trade union organisation or in the Labour Inspectorate. Thus, the Corpus is of interest to all those who question the relationship between law and sociology. The Controverse focuses on the movement of ‘yellow vests’, not directly as such, but on the basis of sociologists’ apprehension and methods of approach. Labour sociologists and social movements have been particularly interfered with by this mobilisation: the Controverse discussed three sociologists about how they were involved in dealing with this social and political conflict and the choice of when their interpretations were publicised. Their differences, as well as their convergent questions, show how sociologists have been affected by this Yellow Gilets movement, in a plurality of analyses. The first article of Varia deals with the experimentation “zero long-term unemployed territory”. This project is based on the idea that it is not the lack of employability of the unemployed, but the low “employability” of enterprises, i.e. the ability of companies to become employers, which is the cause of unemployment. When investigating new ad hoc employers — companies with a view to employment — who hire the voluntary long-term unemployed, the authors show the struggle to interpret the “right to employment” and question more broadly the forms of labour institutions. Varia’s second article deals with the relationship between the industrial novel and the sociology of work, considering that the former is a valuable and very under-used source of data for the latter. From the novels of the past century of Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos, the author shows the sociological interpretative richness of these novels that can compete with and certainly influence the sociology of work... The Fields and Compets section offers a return to the film Invisible (2019), a social comedy that tells the daily lives of a team of social workers working in a day-care place for homeless women. The article questions the points of complementarity between sociological and reporting.What are, on the contrary, the differences between the empirical findings that sociologists can make and what the film highlights? The author shows how the film reflects in a meaningful way the proximity between the living conditions of homeless women and the difficult working conditions of the accompanying social workers. In Materials and Methods, two interviews with a magistrate highlight the dissillusions of some of these magistrates who leave the body and thrive in another professional activity. In the specific case dealt with by the article, the magistrate’s disappointment and commitment to ecology leads it to set up a business. This break highlights the malfunctioning of the organisation of the judiciary and shows how the actors at the heart of the institution live them. Issue 17 of the New Labour Review closes with 18 recensions, offering readers and readers a wide range of recent, rather critical works of social order... and sociological theories at stake.

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