Le travail détaché entre mise au travail intensive et nouvelles formes de la mobilité internationale

Abstract

With 2.8 millions of posted workers in Europe in 2018, this form of employment appears to be a central modality for organizing international labor mobility. It implies the structuration of a wide intermediation market which enable contractors to externalize a range of risks, while insuring high intensity work conditions and a tight control on mobilities. The present article aims to analyze the specific “temporality regimes” that the posting workers produces. On one hand, because of the totalizing character of the work and the reduction of non-working hours, it allows the hegemony of productive temporalities over labor. On the other hand, biographical temporalities reveal multiple ways of accommodating the intensity of the work, its pendular aspect and life “at a distance”. In fine, posted work seems to produce specific subjectivities that remind the key features of migration experience

Keywords

• migrations
• posted workers
• globalization
• productive temporalities
• biographical temporalities