French Support and Work Assistance Establishments (Esat) In the Face of the COVID 19 Pandemic: The Role of Territory and Proximity in Economic Adaptation to the Crisis

Les Établissements et Services d’Aide par le Travail (ESAT) français face à la pandémie de COVID 19: le rôle du territoire et de la proximité dans l’adaptation à la crise

Meddy Escuriet, Mauricette Fournier () and Théo Sanson
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Meddy Escuriet: Territoires - Territoires - AgroParisTech - VAS - VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne
Mauricette Fournier: Territoires - Territoires - AgroParisTech - VAS - VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne

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Abstract: This contribution focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on French support and work assistance establishment (ESAT) based on interviews conducted with managers of institutions located in rural and urban areas of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (France). In order to situate the ESAT in their national context, a first section is devoted to recalling the genesis and functioning of this system, which was set up to promote the social and occupational integration of workers with disabilities, whose originality lies in the articulation of a medico-social logic with an economical logic. We then try to show how the ESAT have organized themselves to provide medico-social support for workers with disabilities despite the obligation of distancing. Then, analyzed through the prism of territorial anchoring and the concept of proximity associated with it, we will focus on the impact of confinement on the economic balance of these establishments to show that the health crisis has less affected the establishments in predominantly agricultural vocation established in rural areas than those, more oriented towards industrial subcontracting, located in urban areas.

Keywords: ESAT (French support and work assistance establishment); COVID-19; disability; medico-social policy; social support; economic effects of confinement; Territory; proximity; Etablissements et Services d’Aide par le Travail (ESAT); Handicap; politique médico-sociale; accompagnement médico-social; impact économique du confinement; territoire; proximité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06-11
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Published in Interventions Economiques : Papers in Political Economy, 2021, 66, ⟨10.4000/interventionseconomiques.14003⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/interventionseconomiques.14003

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