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Last updated: 02/10/08

Sylvie Contrepois

Position

Senior Research Fellow, Working Lives Research Institute

Member of the research laboratory CRESPPA-GTM-CNRS (IRESCO-Paris)

 

 

Qualifications

  • PhD (Sociology) 2001 Doctorat de sociologie, University of Evry (France)
  • Advanced studies degree (Work sociology) 1993 DEA de sociologie du travail, University of Paris VII Jussieu (France)
  • MA (Economics and society) 1991 Maîtrise Administration économique et sociale (AES), University of Paris VII Jussieu (France)
  • Professional qualification in journalism.

Background/Career

From 1991 to 1996 Sylvie worked as a journalist, specialising in employment and political issues for a range of local and national French publications. Between 1995 and 2005 she lectured part-time in the Sociology Department of Evry University (to the South of Paris) and at the Institut Supérieur de Gestion (ISG) of Paris.

From 1998-2001 she was employed as a researcher at ISERES-CGT, the Research Institute of the CGT trade union confederation. Then she worked on a range of national and European projects (FP5) mainly for the Working Lives Research Institute and the GTM-CNRS Research Centre, Paris.

In November 2001 she was awarded her PhD in Sociology on Trade union practices and strategies at the beginning of the 21st century « Stratégies et pratiques syndicales à l’aube du XXIe siècle ». The fieldwork was conducted in the industrial area of Corbeil-Essonnes (in the Snecma aircraft engine factory, IBM, and printing works, the Hélio factories). It was published as a book, Syndicats, la nouvelle donne, in 2003.

In January 2006, she obtained a post-doctoral fellowship from the regional council of Paris, in order to conduct research in France on "Women and collective bargaining" (January 2006 - June 2007).

She is currently employed at the Working Lives Research Institute and works on three main projects : French multinational companies and their influence on the evolution of industrial relations in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland (funded by DARES, French Ministry of Labour, November 2005 - December 2008) ; Space, Place and the Historical and Contemporary articulations of regional, national and European identities through work and community in areas undergoing economic restructuring and regeneration (SPHERE, European FP7 project, April 2008 - March 2011) ; Trade union training : how activists are socialised and apprenticed in French trade unions : La formation syndicale. Socialisation et apprentissages militants dans les organisations syndicales de salariés en France (French National \Agency for Research, 2007-2010).

 

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Research interests and expertise

Sylvie’s research interests are principally concerned with understanding the dynamics of social change in European societies. They revolve around the central concept of collective action and the analysis of the changes that occur within and around the sphere of work. Her research thus takes three main directions : the trade union movement, its contemporary forms and strategies ; social policies arising from work as both the result of successive compromises and as a framework for action ; work changes themselves, from the management of labour to employer strategies.

 

Contact details

Sylvie.CONTREPOIS@wanadoo.fr
UMR Genres et rapports sociaux (GTM-CNRS)
59 - 61 rue Pouchet

75849 Paris Cedex 17
(+33) 1 40 25 11 79

(+33) 6 98 16 24 63

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Publications

Books

Book Chapters

  • 2008. Transformations et recomposition du paysage syndical chez les libraires professionnels. In: Frédérique Leblanc et Patricia Sorel (dir.), Histoire de la Librairie Française, Paris, Éditions du cercle de la librairie.
  • 2007. Roger Combrisson , Notice biographique. In: Claude Pennetier (dir.), Le Maitron, Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier et du mouvement social, de 1940 à mai 1968, tome 3, Paris: les Editions de l’Atelier, pp. 413 - 414.
  • 2007. Shifting patterns in french trade unionism (translated by Ruxandra Pavelchievici). In: Craig Phelan, Trade Union Revitalisation: Trends and Prospects in 30 Nations, Bern, Peter Lang, pp. 159 - 170.
  • 2005. Current tendencies. Incarcerated women in Europe, with France-Line Mary-Portas. In: Marta Cruells et Noelia Igareda (dir.), Women, Integration and prison, Barcelone, Aurea Editores, 2005.
  • 2005. Travailleurs handicapés : le cercle vicieux des dispositifs d’insertion. In: COURS-SALIES, Le bas de l’échelle, La construction sociale des situations subalternes, ERES.
  • 2004. Du syndicalisme ouvrier au syndicalisme de salariés. In: Paul BOUFFARTIGUE (dir), Classes et inégalités sociales en France, La dispute.
  • 2004. Le mouvement syndical , Les archives du mouvements ouvrier , Notices. In: L’industrialisation en Essonnes XVIIIe-XXe siècles, Guide de recherche, CRHRE, GAP :2004, pp. 327-335.
  • 2003. General strike led by students and workers, France, 1968, Notices. In: Neil Schlager, Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide, Gale Group (E.U.).
  • 2003. Roger Combrisson, Notice biographique. In: Claude PENNETIER (dir.), Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement social (1940 - 1968), Ed. de l’Atelier.
  • 2001. Do workers still join trade unions out of utilitarianism or as an indicator of class? In: Steve JEFFERYS, Frederik MISPELBLOM, Christer THORNQVIST, European working lives, Edward Elgar, pp. 171 - 183.
  • 2000. Les nouvelles donnes du plein emploi. In: Henri JACOT (dir.), Nouveau siècle, enjeux majeurs, rapport sur la situation économique et sociale en 1999, Iseres-VO Editions, pp. 43 - 78
  • 1999. Réduction du temps de travail et reconfiguration de la relation salariale. In: Henri JACOT (dir.), À la croisée des chemins, Rapport sur la situation économique et sociale en 1998, Iseres, pp. 37-65.
  • 1999. Les sociétés de secours mutuels en Essonne de 1830 à 1855. In: Sophie Di Folco (coord), Visages d’une société, L’Essonne au milieu du XIXe siècle, CRHRE, Malesherbes, pp. 121-137.
  • 1999. Division du travail et syndicalisme. In: Claude Durand (dir.), La nouvelle division du travail, Paris, Éd. de l’Atelier, pp. 123-140.

Academic articles

Conference papers

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