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Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali | 2017

Low-skilled workers in the "Knowledge Based-Economy": The Case of the Pharmaceutical Sector in France and Belgium

Pierre Fournier; Cédric Lomba; Séverin Muller

When social sciences study the workforce in the “knowledge economy”, they focus on the most highly skilled workers (managers and professionals). This article addresses the issue of the role and the employment conditions of low-skilled workers in the knowledge industries. How can we explain the persistence of low-skilled workers and bad jobs in high-tech sectors? And do the workers at the bottom of the hierarchy take advantage of working in a knowledge-based sector? From a collective survey conducted in the pharmaceutical sector (ethnographic surveys in production plants and drug distribution centers), we show that in this sector low-skilled workers (mainly women) are confined to low status jobs, with poor evolution prospects coupled with a growing use of temporary contracts. Although they manipulate high-tech products (drugs), low-skilled workers do not enjoy better working conditions than low-skilled workers in other industrial sectors. And we could even make the hypothesis that the situation of low skilled workers is even less enviable because they have to comply with the specific regulations of the pharmaceutical sector to guarantee the continuity of health care and safety; constraints that necessarily result in highly flexible schedules and variable work intensity.


Population | 2000

L'enquête et ses méthodes : l'observation directe

Anne-Marie Arborio; Pierre Fournier


Archive | 2015

L'observation directe

Anne-Marie Arborio; Pierre Fournier


Genes | 1996

Des observations sous surveillance

Pierre Fournier


Archive | 2004

Marseille, entre ville et ports : les destins de la rue de la République

Pierre Fournier; Sylvie Mazzella


ethnographiques.org | 2006

Le sexe et l’âge de l’ethnographe : éclairants pour l’enquêté, contraignants pour l’enquêteur

Pierre Fournier


Genèses | 2001

L'intérim, creuset de main-d'œuvre permanente ?

Catherine Faure-Guichard; Pierre Fournier


Ethnologie française | 2001

Attention dangers !: Enquête sur le travail dans le nucléaire

Pierre Fournier


Sociétés contemporaines | 2000

Les "kamikazes" du nucléaire : un même mot pour une réalité qui change

Pierre Fournier


Actes De La Recherche En Sciences Sociales | 1996

Deux regards sur le travail ouvrier : A propos de Roy et Burawoy, 1945-1975

Pierre Fournier

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Cédric Lomba

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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Nicolas Hatzfeld

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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