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Re-Embedding Work in a Political and Social Project: The Case of Business and Employment Cooperatives in France

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  • Justine Ballon
  • Stéphane Veyer

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Among the innovative organizations that have emerged to support a growing number of self-employed workers, an innovative form of worker cooperative has developed over the past twenty years: the Business and Employment Cooperative (BEC). Faced with changes in work and employment, BECs are experimenting with new working methods by seeking to promote the autonomy of entrepreneurs within a democratic productive space. In view of the singularity of changes in work, new analytical schemes are outlined beyond the notion of salaried employment. This research is based on a field survey conducted in three French BECs. It invites us to analyze the political centrality of work in BECs through the notion of activity, inspired by the pragmatist philosophical movement. From a socio-economic perspective, this cooperative action research proposes an analysis of self-employment in BECs by breaking down the activities carried out by members (trade, community and governance), by putting into perspective the contributions and limits of multi-activity. JEL Codes: J53, J540, M540, Z130

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  • Justine Ballon & Stéphane Veyer, 2020. "Re-Embedding Work in a Political and Social Project: The Case of Business and Employment Cooperatives in France," Journal of Innovation Economics, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(1), pages 101-122.
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    1. Makaya, Christian & Blanco, Cristina & Barrédy, Céline, 2023. "Towards an ecological approach for interaction management in entrepreneurship courses," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 160(C).
    2. Fedoua Kasmi & Ferney Osorio & Laurent Dupont & Brunelle Marche & Mauricio Camargo, 2022. "Innovation Spaces as Drivers of Eco-innovations Supporting the Circular Economy: A Systematic Literature Review," Post-Print hal-03590438, HAL.
    3. Thomas Lamarche & Catherine Bodet, 2020. "Les coopératives comme espaces méso critiques," Working Papers hal-02462804, HAL.

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    Keywords

    Activity; Work; Self-Employed Workers; Worker Cooperative; Worker Empowerment; Work Arrangements;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
    • J54 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Producer Cooperatives; Labor Managed Firms
    • M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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