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Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali | 2017
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
Anne-Marie Arborio; Pierre Fournier
Archive | 2015
Anne-Marie Arborio; Pierre Fournier
Genes | 1996
Pierre Fournier
Archive | 2004
Pierre Fournier; Sylvie Mazzella
ethnographiques.org | 2006
Pierre Fournier
Genèses | 2001
Catherine Faure-Guichard; Pierre Fournier
Ethnologie française | 2001
Pierre Fournier
Sociétés contemporaines | 2000
Pierre Fournier
Actes De La Recherche En Sciences Sociales | 1996
Pierre Fournier