📢 The Association Pour la Sociologie de l'Entreprise (APSE), the Masters GRH of Aix-Marseille University's Faculty of Economics and Management, the Laboratoire d'Économie et de Sociologie du Travail (LEST, UMR CNRS-AMU) and the Institut Régional du Travail (IRT) are pleased to announce the tenth cycle of conferences dedicated to new forms of work, which this year will welcome new partners with IMéRA's ArtLib research workshop, the Coudes à coudes association and the International Society of Ergology.
📅 Thursday, January 30, 2025: Claire Flécher, sociologist, senior lecturer at the Lyon Institute for Labour Studies (IETL) of Lyon 2 University and the Max Weber Centre, À bord des géants des mers - Ethnographie embarquée de la logistique globalisée, Editions La Découverte, 2023.
📍 17h30-19h, Marseille, Institut régional du travail (IRT), 63 la Canebière, amphithéâtre Noailles, 3rd floor.
While over 90% of the volume of goods produced in the world transits by sea every year, maritime transport remains a largely unknown universe. How are these goods flows organized? What goes on aboard these giants of globalization? Who works there, how, and at what cost? Based on an ethnographic survey, this book offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the goods we consume are transported, and provides an insight into globalized labor from below. While the profound transformations that have affected the sector in recent years have led to extreme rationalization, driven by the logic of trade, the very essence of seafaring life seems to have dwindled to nothing. In this closed world of globalization, the work collective has to respond to contradictory injunctions: to ensure safety for all while transporting more goods in a continuous flow, and to guarantee forms of solidarity despite inequalities in status and remuneration. Depending on the situation, class, race and gender identities come and go, without ever calling social hierarchies into question - social peace on board depends on it.
