Patrice Flichy
Les nouvelles frontières du travail à l'ère numérique
(The New Frontiers of Work in the Digital Age) Seuil, 2017, 432 p.
The digital revolution is at the heart of the changes currently affecting the world of work. So much so that some see it as the main cause of job insecurity and denounce the "uberization" of the economy, which they believe heralds the end of salaried employment, and even of work itself.
This interpretation only sees part of the problem. It ignores another silent revolution currently underway: individuals' search for new relationships with work. More and more men and women want to gain autonomy, stand out, enhance their reputation, and find fulfillment in what they do. Digital technology provides them with the opportunity to bring their work and their passions closer together, to mobilize their personal resources to invent forms of activity through which they can define themselves. By analyzing emerging attempts to work differently, this book shows how the long tradition of other work, formerly confined to the domestic sphere or the neighborhood, is being replaced by open work that bypasses the organization of professions and combines the collaborative market economy with the non-market sharing economy.
While these practical utopias require a rethinking of the social compromise on a new basis to guarantee the same rights for all, the paths to emancipation they inspire completely redefine the question of work: the challenge is no longer to free ourselves from it, but to free it.
Read in Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2017/09/14/sociologie-travailleurs-2-0_5185345_3260.html
Listen on France Culture
https://www.franceculture.fr/oeuvre/les-nouvelles-frontieres-du-travail-lere-numerique
Buy on the publisher's website
http://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/les-nouvelles-frontieres-du-travail-a-l-ere-numerique-patrice-flichy/9782021368482