A platform of Ouistreham - by Florence Aubenas[Reading report] by Marion Coutel
The author was part of the "Alternative Management" third year program in HEC in 2012
In 2009, Florence Aubenas, journalist and writer, goes to Caen, where she registers as an unemployed person at Pôle Emploi, the French national agency for employment, with the aim of understanding the crisis from an insider perspective. In this book, she relates her job search, her experiences as a cleaning lady, and the story of the people she met.
Quote article « A platform of Ouistreham - by Florence Aubenas », 01 december 2012, Alternative Management Observatory (AMO), [Reading report]
http://appli6.hec.fr/amo/Articles/Entry/Item/284.sls
In the same section
Bicyclaide
[Scenario]
Bicyclaide is a French community-rooted non-profit organization, created in Clichy-la-Garenne (92) in 2009, that helps jobless people make a living by recycling and repairing abandoned bikes.
>>Read moreThe Army and the social and professional insertion of young people
[Research paper]
This essay focuses on the contribution of the French Army to the social and professional insertion of young people. Although it is not its primary function, the Army nevertheless recruits and trains young people who would otherwise have trouble finding jobs and inserts others via special...
>>Read moreThe community of the free : Hackers, pirates and trolls
[Essay]
This essay represents a personal view and tries to describe the hacker community . Starting with a definition of these terms, its evolution is consecutively presented showing some illustrating examples. Furthermore, the actual context and existing transitory tendencies are highlighted, as well as...
>>Read moreCreating an ethic and organic fashion firm after HEC - by Rachel Liu
[Proceedings]
After graduating at HEC, Rachel Liu started a firm in an innovating field: “responsible” clothes, putting together fashion, ecology and ethic.
>>Read moreProtecting the public interest in a technological society
[Research paper]
Technology is overwhelming. It’s everywhere in our lives but we paradoxically often have a very limited understanding of it. We have been delegating to those we call experts the management and knowledge in these areas. We yet talk about areas for whom we should have a great deal of interest;...
>>Read more