Grappling with the performative condition

What kind of an anthropological puzzle does the performativity of strategy constitute? Rather than considering performativity as an operational concept or situating the discussion within the limits of strategy scholarship, this short essay asks how an emphasis on the performative can be regarded as a cultural condition, that is, as a ductile though crucial quality of the way in which things are made sense of in our present cultural setup. Suggesting seemingly extraneous associations between ideals of strategic management and business education, on the one hand, and archetypes of experimental performance and political will, on the other, the essay locates the ultimate interpretive category of this performative condition in the act of decision, and offers a critique of its anthropological limits.     

Les disparités salariales entre effectifs permanents et effectifs temporaires chez les jeunes,dans trois pays européens

Les auteurs étudient les disparités salariales chez les jeunes (25–40 ans) dans trois pays européens (Allemagne, France et Italie) en utilisant les statistiques de l'EU‐SILC (2010). La méthode fait appel à des régressions fondées sur la fonction d'influence recentrée et à des techniques d'estimation par repondération. Elle vise à faire apparaître le rôle des caractéristiques relatives à l'individu et au poste de travail aux différents points de la répartition des salaires. La part de l'écart qui reste inexpliquée est considérable en Italie, pour tous les centiles. En France, elle s'atténue dans le haut de la répartition. En Allemagne, elle n'est jamais significative.     

Indigenous and gendered persons and peoples in business ethics education: Intersections of Indigenous wisdoms and de Beauvoirian existentialism

The purpose of this paper is to explore how business ethics textbooks include Indigenous and gendered persons and peoples and whether they acknowledge Indigenous philosophies and theories. We explore 363 cases from eighteen (18) business ethics textbooks. A form and theme based content analysis was employed to help us better understand the inclusion, obfuscation and omission of Indigenous and gendered persons. A purpose of business ethics education is to disrupt injustice and oppressive practices in business. We find that business ethics education can provide more inclusive and respectful cases as it relates to Indigenous and gendered characters. There are cases that marginalize, obfuscate and omit Indigenous peoples, females, and gender diverse persons. This study contributes to diversity scholarship by identifying ways in which Indigenous and gendered persons and peoples can be included in management and business ethics education.     

Le rôle des initiatives de responsabilité sociale dans le contrôle des audits sociaux et la responsabilisation de leurs auteurs

En 2018, l'effondrement du Rana Plaza braquait le projecteur sur les conditions de travail parfois déplorables dans la confection. Si la grande distribution est depuis pointée du doigt, la responsabilité des cabinets d'audit social est rarement mentionnée. Les auteures examinent les moyens disponibles à ce stade pour repérer et sanctionner les audits négligents ou complaisants, qui taisent les atteintes aux droits des travailleurs. Elles constatent que les contrôles et les rappels à l'ordre restent limités dans les faits. Elles s'interrogent alors sur l'apport des initiatives de responsabilité sociale pour un contrôle véritable de la qualité des audits et une responsabilisation de leurs auteurs.     

Le temps du remue-ménage. Conditions d'emploi et de travail de femmes de chambre

It is now admitted that part-time work is a signal of inequality between the sexes, in both work and family. By focusing on cleavages among women, an analysis is made of how worktime and the company’s position as a subcontractor combine so as to produce inequality among wage-earners by assigning them heterogeneous statuses and thus forcing some of them to cope with precarious working, employment and living conditions. This study of the working and employment conditions of chamber maids in France focuses on those who work part or full-time in cleaning companies under contract with other firms. Inside this rather unskilled group of women, part-time work stresses the differences produced by subcontracting and worsens the inequality between stable, full-time employees and the women subcontracted at part-time who do the same job. These cleavages set off a strike among these part-time workers. Analyzing this labor dispute has shed light on the social relations running through the firm and on invisible issues in work and employment for these women with jobs in the shadows.     

循环p.n.p矩阵与循环Fineny矩阵的表征

本文得到了一类判定循环p．n．p矩阵和循环Fineny矩阵的充要条件．     

流形上一类自映射邻域的拓扑熵的性质

本文给出流形上的一类自映射中的f的任意邻域V(f,ε),存在基数为C的集μ(?)V(f,ε),任取g∈μ,都有ent(g)=ent(f).     

用PLA实現m/n碼全自检检测器的通用方法

本文提出了关于m/n码码集的恰当划分概念,并在此基础上用PLA实现m/n码全自检检测器。对m/n码集恰当划分的存在性也作了讨论,并给出了任意m/n码集恰当划分的生成算法。文中给出的方法适用于任意m/n码全自检检测器的设计。     

L'intensification du travail en débat. Ethnographie et histoire aux chaînes de Peugeot-Sochaux

With the use of ethnography and history, this study of work in the Peugeot-Sochaux automobile factory in the last half of the 20th century makes us stand back from a unifying, generalized view of the intensification of labor. For one thing, variations in work rules and the diversity of related problems bring to light the tensions underlying the issue of workloads. For another, detecting when workloads are actually heavier and more stressful calls for taking into account a variety of periods and tendencies while studying working conditions. This study conducted in workshops in the Sochaux plant leads us away from a quantitative, abstract view of the intensification of work. We are thus led to examine the concrete changes that affect employment conditions and the technical aspects of work over a longer term. Far from losing sense, the idea of an intensification of work processes becomes richer and more relevant for analyzing the world of work.     

Machinisme, marxisme, humanisme : Georges Friedmann avant et après-guerre

Georges Friedmann (1902-1977) is known as the founder, following WW II, of a “sociology of humanist work”. Before the war, he was a Marxist intellectual, close to the Communist Party, who admired the young Soviet Union. How this political and ideological itinerary affected his sociology of labor, has never been systematically analyzed. To do so, “machinism” (mechanization), a key concept in the first part of Friedmann’s writing, is scrutinized. This concept came not from Marx, but from Michelet’s romantic conception of history, with which Friedmann was familiar. Following the war, it was given up for the pair “natural/technical milieu”; but this shift in vocabulary did not radically alter Friedmann’s views. Questions arise about how the intellectual itinerary of the founder of French labor sociology, who was shaped by the political trauma experienced by his generation, has lastingly affected this discipline.