Virilité, métier et rapport aux risques professionnels : le cas de travailleurs de la sous-traitance

Industrial subcontracting is associated with a deterioration in occupational health and safety. A survey among subcontracting male workers in heavy industry shows that they are highly exposed to work instability and difficulty, with frequent impacts on their health. Risk awareness does exist, but ma...

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Main Authors: Paul Bouffartigue, Jean-René Pendariès, Jacques Bouteiller
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Language:English
Published: Institut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail (IRSST) 2010-11-01
Series:Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/pistes/2652
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description Industrial subcontracting is associated with a deterioration in occupational health and safety. A survey among subcontracting male workers in heavy industry shows that they are highly exposed to work instability and difficulty, with frequent impacts on their health. Risk awareness does exist, but many mechanisms attenuate it, including persistence of defensive strategies, based on virility and the profession. But work is not just a « health impact factor », it is also a « health factor », through professionalism and cooperation practices within working groups. Work is also a « health revealer », which is also constructed elsewhere, through health selection effects. Finally, work regulates health and aging, via promotional career paths that can remove workers from the most difficult and dangerous work situations.
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spellingShingle Paul Bouffartigue
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Virilité, métier et rapport aux risques professionnels : le cas de travailleurs de la sous-traitance
Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé
occupational health
precariousness
subcontracting
worker
virility
title Virilité, métier et rapport aux risques professionnels : le cas de travailleurs de la sous-traitance
title_full Virilité, métier et rapport aux risques professionnels : le cas de travailleurs de la sous-traitance
title_fullStr Virilité, métier et rapport aux risques professionnels : le cas de travailleurs de la sous-traitance
title_full_unstemmed Virilité, métier et rapport aux risques professionnels : le cas de travailleurs de la sous-traitance
title_short Virilité, métier et rapport aux risques professionnels : le cas de travailleurs de la sous-traitance
title_sort virilite metier et rapport aux risques professionnels le cas de travailleurs de la sous traitance
topic occupational health
precariousness
subcontracting
worker
virility
url https://journals.openedition.org/pistes/2652
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