Distinctive features of wage labour in family livestock farming: An initial approach based on a case study in the Northern Alps (France)Original Title (non-English) Specificites du salariatpermanent en elevage laitier de montagne : une premiere approche dans les Alpes du Nord [French]

摘要

Quite unusual in family livestock farming, notably in mountainous areas, wage labour in France is slowly but steadily gaining impetus. In so doing, it brings about work situations defined on the one hand by the legal framework characteristic of labour in the industrial world and on the other hand by the specifities of an agricultural world where transactions are governed by the trust and familiarity prevailing in family relationships. Based on field surveys carried out in Savoie and Haute-Savoie (French Northern Alps), the present study focuses on the specific features of permanent wage labour while pointing out to the tensions arising out of the two worlds it refers to. Three forms of legal frameworks are examined: individual full-time or part-time labour, wage labour within replacement services, and employment by a group of employers.