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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Main Author: Julien Gros
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Language:fra
Published: La Nouvelle Revue du Travail 2014-11-01
Series:La Nouvelle Revue du Travail
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nrt/1875
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description 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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Les bûcherons-tâcherons, des travailleurs restés à l’écart du salariat
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margins of the wage-earning system
independent workers
subordination
and economic dependence
title Les bûcherons-tâcherons, des travailleurs restés à l’écart du salariat
title_full Les bûcherons-tâcherons, des travailleurs restés à l’écart du salariat
title_fullStr Les bûcherons-tâcherons, des travailleurs restés à l’écart du salariat
title_full_unstemmed Les bûcherons-tâcherons, des travailleurs restés à l’écart du salariat
title_short Les bûcherons-tâcherons, des travailleurs restés à l’écart du salariat
title_sort les bucherons tacherons des travailleurs restes a l ecart du salariat
topic margins of the wage-earning system
independent workers
subordination
and economic dependence
url https://journals.openedition.org/nrt/1875
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