New Forms of Work in Agriculture

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Christophe-Toussaint Soulard

Introduction. Contemporary differentiations in agricultural work

Nathalie Hostiou, Benoît Dedieu, Pierre Gasselin, Lisa Vincent

Responding to current challenges

The aim of the book: to highlight new forms of work in agriculture

Organization of the book

Bibliographical references

PART I – NEW FORMS OF FARM ORGANIZATION

Land holding arrangements and their impact on work in beneficiary farms

Christine Léger-Bosch

Analytical framework and method

Results

Discussion

Bibliographical

2. Collective farms: new forms of agricultural settlement?

Delphine Laurant

Approaching the “collective farm” and work organization issues

Materials and methods

Results: from the creation of a collective to the operationalization of ideals

Discussion

Bibliographical

PART II – NEW AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES

Agroecology in Southern France: implementation hampered by labor costs

Sébastien Bainville, Claire Aubron, Olivier Philippon

Since 1950: a general trend towards labor extensification

Today: contrasting levels of labor intensification and remuneration

Additional labor as a limiting factor for the transition?

Conclusion

Bibliographical

What work configurations in Breton dairy farming are conducive to agroecological transition and collaboration?

Anne-Lise Jacquot, Manon Kister, Marine Dumeix-Toullec, Véronique Lucas

Context, approach and method

Results

Discussion and conclusion

Bibliographical

5. Autonomy at work for livestock farmers. Enhancing semi-natural environments through grazing

Madelleine Johany-Mirabal, Fanny Chrétien, Nathalie Girard, Lucie Gouttenoire

Theoretical framework

Methodology

Results

Discussion and conclusion

Bibliographical

The value of work in agroecological practices: a path to the recognition of agricultural activity

Emmanuel Poussard, Philippe Spoljar, Gérard Valléry

Research on the psychological benefits of new practices

Work issues in the (re)construction of links with society

A material and symbolic link: the fair price of agricultural products

Renewing links through conflictual cooperation

Conclusion

Bibliographical

7. The potential role of social media: supporting farmers in agroecological transition

Celina Slimi, Lorène Prost, Magali Prost, Marianne Cerf

Agroecological transition as a survey to be supported

How can social media contribute to this investigation

Social media’s capacity to trigger inquiry

The potential to induce the investigation is closely linked to the facilitator

Training advisors and facilitators to support survey?

Conclusion

Bibliographical

8. The right machine size: herd size under the threshold of milking robot

Théo Martin

Milking robot: a controversy over dairy farm size

Method and theoretical framework

Threshold effects in milking robot

Conclusion

Bibliographical

9. Itineraries of animal care on farms: an analysis of work organization

Vinciane Gotti, Claire Manoli, Benoît Dedieu

Operational implementation of care: focus on the biotechnical sub-system

A method for studying animal care pathways

A diversity of itineraries of care in the surveyed sample

Discussion: insights from the formalization of itineraries of care

Conclusion

Bibliographical

PART III – NEW WORKERS

10. Italian neo-farmers reinventing work and rural life

Paula Dolci

Participatory tourism as key support for new farmers

In search of unity between work and life

From one “alienation” to another? lifestyle work confronted with precariousness and gender inequalities

Conclusion

Bibliographical

11. Free labor and the establishment of new entrants outside farming backgrounds: invisible realities

Marie Barisaux, Pierre Gasselin, Lucette Laurens

Conceptual framework

Method

Results

Discussion and conclusion

Appendix. Characteristics of surveyed farms

Bibliographical

12. Developing local food supply chains: what challenges for livestock farmers’ work?

Philippine Dupé, Benoît Dedieu, Pierre Gasselin

Conceptual frameworks and method

Results

Discussion and Conclusion

Bibliographical

Bosses in coffee shops without boots: agricultural entrepreneurship among young people of the Moroccan diaspora

Anne Lascaux

Successes and failures of young people from the suburbs in agriculture

“Arab work”? Controversial new agricultural workers

Conclusion

Bibliographical

Cross-border posting of agricultural labor: trust, mistrust and distrust at the heart of a business ecosystem

Béatrice Mésini, Mathieu Coulon

Fides: an innovative “posting” offer between two productive agricultural basins

Bona fides: the socio-economic and spatial deployment of a business ecosystem

Mala fides: intentional offences committed “as an organized group”

Conclusion

Bibliographical

15. Domestic animals: invisible workers

Sébastien Mouret, Vanina Deneux-Le Barh

The animal question: is work a specifically human attribute?

Agriculture and the environment: a reading through animal labor

Conclusion

Bibliographical

Conclusion. Working differently in agriculture: emerging forms and research perspectives

Benoît Dedieu, Pierre Gasselin, Nathalie Hostiou

Transforming the farm: between land-capital-labor dissociations and collective recompositions

Practices in transition: techniques, standards and professional autonomy

Working in agriculture: diversity of figures, invisibility and claims

Understanding NFWA together to envision and guide the futures of agricultural work

Bibliographical

List of Authors