L’engagement au travail de petit·es producteur·ices biologiques. (Ré)ajuster les pratiques de care au quotidien

This article examines the logics by which small organic growers elaborate alternative work organizations that challenge the dualisms of nature/culture, private/public, employment/volunteering. Drawing on an ethnographic research on two vegetable and dairy farms, the article first shows how actors demonstrate a political and moral commitment in their work through care practices towards humans, animals and plants. Second, it discusses the construction of “community economies”, based on reciprocity and the inclusion of voluntary actors, which tend to mobilize women to a greater extent. It thus appears that those alternative work organizations standing for these ideals are put to the test of time and economic sustainability, leading the actors to (re)negotiate the boundaries of temporalities and spaces of work.