Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France by Olivier Masclet

Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France by Olivier Masclet

This volume explores the lives and work of those who are kept out of poverty by their employment, but who occupy tenuous social positions and subaltern jobs.

'Olivier Masclet and his team of expert researchers have produced an exemplary account of those in the middle tier of the working class today: those who are not so poor and insecure as to be the subject of moral panic and political censure but not so affluent and privileged as to be on the edge of the middle classThey are getting by, struggling on, trying to be "like everyone else", with hopes, dreams, struggles, failures and fears for the future. Embedding rich, detailed case studies of individuals and couples within rigorous reviews of the changes sweeping France as much as any other Western social order, the team skilfully manage to unpick the effects of declining working class solidarity, precarisation and feminisation of employment, changing gender relations and the race for credentials on the everyday experiences, biographies, self-perceptions and self-evaluations of workers and families in the 21st century. This is a must-read for anyone interested in working-class life in contemporary Europe'. Will Atkinson, Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol, author of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies and Beyond Bourdieu

Olivier Masclet is a Professor of Sociology at the Université de Limoges and co-director of the GRESCO Research Centre, France.

Thomas Amossé is a researcher at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Lise-CEET Research Centre, Paris, France.

Lise Bernard is a researcher at CNRS and a member of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Paris, France.

Marie Cartier is a Professor of Sociology at Nantes University, France.

Marie-Hélène Lechien is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the Université de Limoges, France.

Olivier Schwartz is a Professor of Sociology at the Université Paris Cité, France.

Yasmine Siblot is a Professor of Sociology at the Université Paris 8, CRESPPA-CSU Research Centre, France.

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ISBN 13	9781032360577
ISBN 10	1032360577
Title	Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France
Author	Olivier Masclet
Series	Routledge Advances In Sociology
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2022-12-30
Number of pages	356
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