On Abortion is a visual project where Laia Abril describes the abortion event less than the consequences and risks of women’s lack of access to this procedure. The artist collected numerous testimonies from women who had been confronted with the need to interrupt pregnancy in an environment where th...

For a trade union delegate, ‘campaigning on a daily basis’ takes place on multiple fronts. It is also at this operational level that the challenges of the militant ‘organisational work’ that this article specifically addresses. He reported on this on the basis of the results of a wide-ranging resear...

The issue of generational renewal is now passing through all trade unions. Concerns about the low level of unionisation, the lack of a trade union and political culture among young people, the lack of mention is reflected in many of the speeches of trade union leaders and activists. Not only do thes...

Based on fieldwork carried out with unionized railway workers, this contribution concerns certain stakes in ethnographic work conducted with activist groups. While activist socialization is most often studied after the fact – that is, based on interviews where activists recount their history and mot...

This article explores the differentiated inclusion of women and men in the process of political socialisation in groups of young activists, in order to inform the exclusion of women from leadership positions and eligible positions in political parties. The research presented shows, on the one hand,...

This book on “Corporate Social Responsibility” focuses on the genesis of a right. It examines the origins of the law of 27 March 2017 on the duty of care of parent companies, often large international groups, and donor companies, often located in countries with low wages and very poor working condit...

In France, the scope of social action is an area of public service characterised by the involvement of actors from both the public and private sectors. For example, associations governed by the Law of 1 July 1901 can also perform public service tasks by means of partnerships and agreements with the...

in recent years, the participatory “2.0” web shift has fostered the emergence of a variety of practices for the exchange of goods or services, the re-circulation of used goods, the optimisation of the use of durable goods, or the collective production of information coordinated by the digital tool....

Based on a field survey carried out in a local CIMADE group located in an average city in the province, this chapter questions the concept of professionalisation with regard to a specific form of work that is usually invisible: advocacy and voluntary work. The observations show that the militant wor...

The current period is seeing a growing proportion of "activist" workers who have expressly chosen their occupation in response to the need to defend collective interests and provide solutions to social and environmental problems. They hope to find in the so-called "hybrid organizations" combining ma...

This book focuses on a phenomenon of widespread presence, which remains largely mysterious: benchmarking. On the basis of this objective, he proposed a stimulating reading of the current changes in the organisation of work in the civil service. In the militant tone, but with undeniable scientific ri...

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After the assassination of Rafiq Hariri (14 February 2005) and the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon (April 2005), Hariri’s son, Sa‘d, attempted to federate a national Sunni political public mobilised against Syria, Hizbullah, and Iran. The study argues that Hariri failed to mobilize the different comp...

The pregnancy and birth as they take place in medical areas in Western Europe have been the subject of highly critical analyses and experiments since “the 68s”. The article engages in a dialogue between two empirical studies examining the so-called “alternative” births introduced in France and Italy...

This book is not intended to be scientific work in the sense that it would provide the reader with a fresh study on the Inquisition Court, from sources previously unexplored. To repeat the words of his prefacier Jean-Pierre Dedieu, this is a ‘militant book’, which belongs to the kind of literature k...

This text draws from the observation of social workers’ practices, of what they say about them and of their relationship to forms of knowledge drawn from school and their field practice. Two groups among others are examined: clinical and militant social workers. The first group, almost exclusively m...

The philosophy of the Canadian labour movement is examined in the light of the three stages which characterize the pattern of union growth. The author shows how youthful years idealism gave way to a pragmatic philosophy over the last two decades.

“titrebSummary”/titrebThis article explores the central role of the small hands of politics in Mexico City, building local but also national political ties in and from the neighbourhood. The author proposes the concept of an intermediary in everyday life: an inhabitant of the neighbourhood who, thro...

In March 1957, the press announces the death of a ‘small Muslim lawyer’: “Who killed Maître Boumendjel?” France Observer title. Questions are raised about false suicide. But what did this ‘moderate’ do in the hands of the ‘paras’? Why was he murdered, as General Aussaresses will recognise in his mem...

for about ten years, occupational physicians have used the category of ‘suffering at work’ to refer to what they consider to be new occupational diseases. This article proposes to analyse the spread in occupational medicine of this category, which reveals the influence of psychology, the psychodynam...

Far from the mythic and fragmented image of Theatre of the oppressed, this study intends to bring to light the ongoing processes in the development of this praxis developed by the Brazilian director Augusto Boal. Systematically considered as both a theory (the poetics of the oppressed) and a practic...

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This article analyses the conditions of politicisation of rural women in their relationship to land, as a territory, as an object of work and care. On the basis of a socio-historical approach, the rural women movement is captured in its links with the struggles for past and present land. Based on th...

France enacted a due diligence law in March 2017 to oblige large companies to prevent serious violations of human rights and the environment in their supply chain. The author tracks the origins of this law, describing the actions of militant movements to improve working conditions among suppliers.

in Brazil, several municipalities are turning to sub-contracting to meet their mental health workforce needs. The case of auxiliary nurses in the network of the city of Campinas makes it possible to grasp the impact of these transformations on precarious workers. The work and mobilisation of 16 auxi...