Emilie Bourdu, Michel Lallement, Pierre Veltz, Thierry Weil (Dir.), Working In Motion[Emilie Bourdu, Michel Lallement, Pierre Veltz, Thierry Weil (Dir.), Le Travail En Mouvement]

The digitization of productive processes leads to broad and deep reorganisations of professional activities, with new forms of engagement at work, more horizontal collaborations and changing societal regulations. This collective work analyzes these contemporary transformations by confronting theoretical conceptualizations with field experiments. The heuristic approach in the apprehension of the work is resolutely pluridisciplinary, combining the statistical observations with the results of experiments specific to certain workshops and territories and mobilizing a large panel of sources and experts of the social sciences to analyze the representations of the work, and its social or legal regulations. By investigating the transformations of work under the joint impact of the diffusion of digital technologies and the modification of the relationship of subordination in the context of an economy in the process of tertiarisation, the book is part of the pursuit of a questioning on the nature of the work, initiated by the colloquium of Cerisy in 2017. In the first place, the book describes the conditions of emergence of the responsibility of the agents in the classic organizations as well as its limits. Then, it examines the transformations of work induced by the digitization of activities in order to analyze the impact on the productive organization and the consequent consequences for salaried or self-employed workers. This is followed by the identification of new regulations emerging in response to these changes and the delineation of open negotiation spaces both nationally and internationally through this process. Finally, the experiments developing in the territories are described to pave the way for innovative forms of activity that stand out from the traditional professional methods.