This article studies the chronic and acute anomic social impacts of the development of market soc... more This article studies the chronic and acute anomic social impacts of the development of market societies in Europe over the past few decades. Focusing on the firm but linking micro and macro levels, it argues that the passage from the welfare state to disembedded markets and neoliberal governance has generated individual and collective anomie by depriving social actors of agency and voice while caging them in the disciplinary constraints of an ideal competition society. Promoted by public and private governors animated by visions of managerial omnipotence, this reconfiguration has hollowed out the cluster of rights that was the basis of democratic and social citizenship in Europe. The article discusses the manifestations of anomie, stressing the violence flowing from the radical uncertainty to which atomized employees and more broadly citizens are facing in the reification of collective goals, which have been reduced to participation in market society. Drawing on the classical litera...
Comment tourner la page, «faire le deuil» apres avoir perdu son emploi? La trajectoire d'un g... more Comment tourner la page, «faire le deuil» apres avoir perdu son emploi? La trajectoire d'un groupe d'ouvrieres licenciees de l'usine Levi's revele les limites des dispositifs de reclassement.
A partir de los anos 80, en Estados Unidos, con la conversion de las elites al dogma neoliberal, ... more A partir de los anos 80, en Estados Unidos, con la conversion de las elites al dogma neoliberal, se despliega todo un arsenal de medidas que tienen por objetivo retirarles a los trabajadores el mayor numero de derechos sociales y reforzar el poderio de las empresas. Se trata de arrancar de cuajo - pero sin gritarlo a voces - todas las "concesiones" hechas a las clases trabajadoras durante los anos Roosevelt (1932-1945) y durante el periodo keynesiano posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1945-1980) hasta la eleccion del Presidente Ronald Reagan y el arranque de su "revolucion" conservadora. Como un telon de fondo de la crisis actual, las obras presentadas en este articulo relatan ese gran retroceso de la proteccion social mientras se generalizaba un modelo de management particularmente despiadado.
Apres avoir rappele quelles etaient les formes traditionnelles de l'intervention de l'Eta... more Apres avoir rappele quelles etaient les formes traditionnelles de l'intervention de l'Etat dans la gestion des entreprises nationalisees en Grande-Bretagne, cette communication s'interroge sur la signification des nouvelles orientations adoptees en ce domaine parles pouvoirs publics depuis quelques annees. Mis en perspective, le cas particulier des charbonnages laisse entrevoir le caractere fondamental des recentes transformations qui ne peuvent se reduire a une simple opposition entre "plus" ou "moins" d'Etat. ; Celui-ci intervient en effet autant, sinon plus que par le passe, mais autrement. C'est pourquoi les notions de "regulation" ou de "deregulation" paraissent tout a fait relatives. Les regles du jeu ont change, comme l'Etat britannique, qui a emprunte sa voie specifique.
... 8 D'après les travaux de Bastiaan van Appeldoorn, ces derniers n'ont cessé, depuis, d... more ... 8 D'après les travaux de Bastiaan van Appeldoorn, ces derniers n'ont cessé, depuis, d'exercer une influence déterminante sur ... Hartz IV (2003), outil d'un « changement de paradigme » dans le système allemand de protection sociale (Rudischhauser et Zimmermann, 2004), en ...
A report on bullying and harassment at work based on an qualitative enquiry in 2007-2008 at Franc... more A report on bullying and harassment at work based on an qualitative enquiry in 2007-2008 at France Télécom - Orange.
Since the end of the 1970s, an incremental erosion of social rights, resulting from successive re... more Since the end of the 1970s, an incremental erosion of social rights, resulting from successive restructurings of national labour markets that have been encouraged at European Union level, and the consequent emergence of a society of competition, has led to social anomie while at the same time opening the way for a new disciplinary normative order. That new order is shaping or reshaping individual and collective identity by caging people into patterns of relations that promote fear, indifference, intolerance towards others, or feelings of shame and a loss of self esteem. In the most extreme cases, this leads to self-annihilation.
This article studies the chronic and acute anomic social impacts of the development of market soc... more This article studies the chronic and acute anomic social impacts of the development of market societies in Europe over the past few decades. Focusing on the firm but linking micro and macro levels, it argues that the passage from the welfare state to disembedded markets and neoliberal governance has generated individual and collective anomie by depriving social actors of agency and voice while caging them in the disciplinary constraints of an ideal competition society. Promoted by public and private governors animated by visions of managerial omnipotence, this reconfiguration has hollowed out the cluster of rights that was the basis of democratic and social citizenship in Europe. The article discusses the manifestations of anomie, stressing the violence flowing from the radical uncertainty to which atomized employees and more broadly citizens are facing in the reification of collective goals, which have been reduced to participation in market society. Drawing on the classical litera...
Comment tourner la page, «faire le deuil» apres avoir perdu son emploi? La trajectoire d'un g... more Comment tourner la page, «faire le deuil» apres avoir perdu son emploi? La trajectoire d'un groupe d'ouvrieres licenciees de l'usine Levi's revele les limites des dispositifs de reclassement.
A partir de los anos 80, en Estados Unidos, con la conversion de las elites al dogma neoliberal, ... more A partir de los anos 80, en Estados Unidos, con la conversion de las elites al dogma neoliberal, se despliega todo un arsenal de medidas que tienen por objetivo retirarles a los trabajadores el mayor numero de derechos sociales y reforzar el poderio de las empresas. Se trata de arrancar de cuajo - pero sin gritarlo a voces - todas las "concesiones" hechas a las clases trabajadoras durante los anos Roosevelt (1932-1945) y durante el periodo keynesiano posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1945-1980) hasta la eleccion del Presidente Ronald Reagan y el arranque de su "revolucion" conservadora. Como un telon de fondo de la crisis actual, las obras presentadas en este articulo relatan ese gran retroceso de la proteccion social mientras se generalizaba un modelo de management particularmente despiadado.
Apres avoir rappele quelles etaient les formes traditionnelles de l'intervention de l'Eta... more Apres avoir rappele quelles etaient les formes traditionnelles de l'intervention de l'Etat dans la gestion des entreprises nationalisees en Grande-Bretagne, cette communication s'interroge sur la signification des nouvelles orientations adoptees en ce domaine parles pouvoirs publics depuis quelques annees. Mis en perspective, le cas particulier des charbonnages laisse entrevoir le caractere fondamental des recentes transformations qui ne peuvent se reduire a une simple opposition entre "plus" ou "moins" d'Etat. ; Celui-ci intervient en effet autant, sinon plus que par le passe, mais autrement. C'est pourquoi les notions de "regulation" ou de "deregulation" paraissent tout a fait relatives. Les regles du jeu ont change, comme l'Etat britannique, qui a emprunte sa voie specifique.
... 8 D'après les travaux de Bastiaan van Appeldoorn, ces derniers n'ont cessé, depuis, d... more ... 8 D'après les travaux de Bastiaan van Appeldoorn, ces derniers n'ont cessé, depuis, d'exercer une influence déterminante sur ... Hartz IV (2003), outil d'un « changement de paradigme » dans le système allemand de protection sociale (Rudischhauser et Zimmermann, 2004), en ...
A report on bullying and harassment at work based on an qualitative enquiry in 2007-2008 at Franc... more A report on bullying and harassment at work based on an qualitative enquiry in 2007-2008 at France Télécom - Orange.
Since the end of the 1970s, an incremental erosion of social rights, resulting from successive re... more Since the end of the 1970s, an incremental erosion of social rights, resulting from successive restructurings of national labour markets that have been encouraged at European Union level, and the consequent emergence of a society of competition, has led to social anomie while at the same time opening the way for a new disciplinary normative order. That new order is shaping or reshaping individual and collective identity by caging people into patterns of relations that promote fear, indifference, intolerance towards others, or feelings of shame and a loss of self esteem. In the most extreme cases, this leads to self-annihilation.
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