Collective actions on the margins of the salariat

Marie-Christine Bureau and Antonella Corsani
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Marie-Christine Bureau: LISE-CNAM, Paris, France
Antonella Corsani: IDHES-UMR 8533, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2018, vol. 24, issue 3, 279-295

Abstract: In light of the renewed expansion of independent work and the blurring of the boundaries between wage labour and independence, the emergence of new collective actors in the space between wage labour and independent work/contracting is of critical significance. In this article we propose to highlight two experiences of collective action, both in France. On the one hand, we examine the Intermittent and Precarious Workers Coordination and, on the other, the project launched by a Coopérative d’Activité et d’Emploi (CAE: employment and activity cooperative or BEC: Business and Employment Cooperative) with the aim of evolving towards a ‘work mutuality’. While quite different with regard to their origins and means of mobilisation, these experiences nevertheless share two common significant traits: they are both what we term ‘instituting factories’ ( fabriques instituantes ); and they both experiment with non-hierarchical forms of decision-making, organisation and collaboration. We attempt to shed light on the background of these two experiences of collective action whose origins are rooted in professional situations on the margins of the salariat , as well as upon the innovative displacements they introduce into the working world by re-interrogating forms of workplace democracy.

Keywords: Intermittent and Precarious Workers Coordination; Business and Employment Cooperative (BEC); collective action; ‘instituting factories’ (fabriques instituantes); grey zone; workplace democracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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