Table of Contents

• • De-liberating work: what is the democratic horizon for the temporal and organisational recomposition of work?

• Part 1.
  Temporalities of work and non-work

• • Introduction
  • Difficulties in reconciling work and family life: not more frequent but clearly more harmful for women
  • Atypical working hours (excluding night work): what are their effects?
  • The industrial time crisis and its effects on employee health at a car manufacturer
  • Health effects of working long hours: current knowledge
  • Spaces of control and spaces of intimacy
  • Use of digital technologies for business purposes

• Part 2.
  Working conditions at the risk of employment relations

• • Introduction
  • “There’s something very hard about the technicians”
  • On the edge of subcontracting, working in spite of everything: the case of chambermaids
  • Working conditions in subcontracting: a research on cleaning and security employees
  • Searching for the meaning of work: an analysis based on the 2013 Working Conditions Survey

• Part 3.
  Towards democratic work organisations?

• • Introduction
  • Start-ups, from new forms of work organisation to new forms of constraints
  • Working and doing business differently: the case of a digital freelance collective
  • ‘Liberating’ journalistic work or ‘democratising’ the media enterprise?
  • The contours of ‘participation’ in SCOPs

• Part 4.
  Managerial innovations and law: towards a democratisation of work?

• • Managerial innovations, law and labour deliberation
  • The role of individual factors in the implementation of an empowerment process: hindrances or driving forces?
  • The management of participation: between liberation and de-liberation of work
  • A democratisation of work in an ordinary environment?
  • From the digital transformation of work tools to the transformation of work practices
  • Experimenting: a democratic mode of work deliberation?
  • Using the law to contest dismissals

• General conclusion

• • After the France Télécom trial: what is the project for work?