Les bûcherons-tâcherons, des travailleurs restés à l’écart du salariat
Contract lumberjacks have more features in common today with independent workers than with wage earners. Employed under short-term contracts, paid on a piece-rate basis and owners of their work tools, theirs is a profession that has long deviated from the general trend towards wage-earning, attestin...
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| Language: | fra |
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La Nouvelle Revue du Travail
2014-11-01
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| Series: | La Nouvelle Revue du Travail |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/nrt/1875 |
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| Summary: | Contract lumberjacks have more features in common today with independent workers than with wage earners. Employed under short-term contracts, paid on a piece-rate basis and owners of their work tools, theirs is a profession that has long deviated from the general trend towards wage-earning, attesting to the diversity of employment systems even as the wage system has become the dominant social modus operandi. Yet despite lumberjacks’ economically dominated position, they still benefit from a great deal of autonomy in terms of their work organisation, applying a kind of accounting that is very different from usual employment contracts. The present article addresses the social and historical conditions defining the boundaries between independent work and wage-earning in socially dominated activities. |
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| ISSN: | 2263-8989 |