It's for a good cause. The disillusionment of community work Simon Cottin-Marx

Working for a cause, having a meaningful job, combining employment with commitment: on paper, it sounds like the ideal job. Except when the cause takes precedence over everything else, starting with working conditions: low wages, long hours, the threat of burnout… Are associations forgetting to put the values they defend into practice with their own employees?

With 1.8 million employees, non-profit organizations today constitute a veritable world of work. Drawing on a large-scale sociological survey, the author explores the specificities of these atypical companies, caught between work and commitment, but also subject to the constraints of the state and the market. These contradictions must be analyzed in order to restore work to its rightful place in this particular universe and give it back its full meaning.