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"To make the job" of cyclist : a pragmatic sociology of work in sport
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In their jargon, cyclists easily use the expression "to make the job". What more natural than to say or tell what "to make the job" for professional athletes. Yet it is through this expression that runners describe their perceptions of the sensory world. Besides trivial, it refers the experts to many definitions that hide both the ordinary demands of their practice but also its excesses. And it is this polysemy interpretation that seems to be discussed and paves the controversy. From a series of autobiographical works, public speeches and interviews of professional cyclists, this thesis proposes to study the expression following a threefold approach. "To make the job" can first be understood at level of an organizational approach, when actors negotiate and discuss the definition and supervision of work at the federal level on the bases of Labor Law and Sports Law. Moreover, this expression can be comprehended when cyclists themselves try to make sense of their work, emphasizing the rigor and difficulty of it. Finally the analysis of disputes such as strikes riders, the Cofidis affair and the conflict surrounding the ProTour allows both the profession understanding and the objectification induced by the devices that regulate the activity. The entry by the dispute enables to understand the intersection and coordination of these two levels of description. This work highlights the evolution of the work under the daily cyclists.

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