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Les artisans en milieu rural, une force entravée

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  • Michel Auvolat

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[eng] Rural artisans and their political handicaps . Although the environment in which they have developed is essentially urban, englobing more than 250 000 enterprises, French artisans make up one of the crucial economic components of rural society. Little present in local power structures and fragmented amongst diverse and multiple professional forms of representation, it is only recently that artisans have attempted to formulate a collective strategy for rural areas. The principal handicap stems from their mode of action which favours a view of the profession in its sector rather than as regards its localisation. Contrary to this trend, any policy which differentiates between localities, or attempts, through diversification, to attenuate the specificities of the profession, is seen as a threat to equality- based competition between companies. These reasons explain why artisans have very often been on the defensive when confronted with policy propositions from agriculture or public authorities. [fre] Bien que son cadre de développement soit essentiellement urbain (plus des deux tiers des artisans sont installés en ville), l'artisanat constitue, avec plus de 250 000 entreprises, une des forces économiques essentielles du monde rural. L'artisanat traditionnel de service à l'agriculture et de la filière bois se segmente en différents types d'entreprises parfois proches de la pmi. L'artisanat du bâtiment est en fait le plus présent, mais intervient aussi sur des marchés élargis. Les métiers les plus dynamiques sont ceux des services à la personne. Peu présents dans les pouvoirs locaux, divisés en représentations professionnelles multiples, les artisans n'ont tenté que récemment d'élaborer une stratégie collective pour l'espace rural. La principale hypothèque réside dans leur système d'action qui privilégie la position du métier dans sa filière sans considération de localisation. Au contraire, toute politique différenciant les espaces ou tendant, par la diversification, à effacer les spécificités de métier apparaît menaçante pour l'égalité de concurrence entre entreprises. Ceci explique que les artisans soient restés plutôt sur la défensive face aux propositions venant de l'agriculture et des pouvoirs publics.

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  • Michel Auvolat, 1997. "Les artisans en milieu rural, une force entravée," Économie rurale, Programme National Persée, vol. 238(1), pages 19-23.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recoru:ecoru_0013-0559_1997_num_238_1_4852
    DOI: 10.3406/ecoru.1997.4852
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