Drinking and Alcoholism at Work : Ethnography of a French Mail Sorting Center
This study, based on on-site observation and interviews with mail handlers and managers employed by the French postal service La Poste, was conducted to improve knowledge of the alcohol consumption and alcoholism-related practices specific to this occupational milieu. Neither of these sets of pra...
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cairn-RFS_475_0065RFS1Revue française de sociologie https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-2006-5-page-65?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/rfs.475.0065 Drinking and Alcoholism at Work : Ethnography of a French Mail Sorting Center Merle, PierreLe Beau, Bertrand2006 fre Revue française de sociologie | 47 | 5 | 2006-12-01 | p. 65-97 | 0035-2969 RFS_4752 This study, based on on-site observation and interviews with mail handlers and managers employed by the French postal service La Poste, was conducted to improve knowledge of the alcohol consumption and alcoholism-related practices specific to this occupational milieu. Neither of these sets of practices can be studied in isolation from mail handler socializing and practices of mutual support in the workplace, or from the social oversight practices that regulate routine production activity; specifically, the requirement that managers report “intemperate mail workers”. Analysis of the interdependence between routine work and alcohol consumption practices sheds light on why managers often show a passive attitude despite regulations requiring them to report “alcoholic” mail handlers.Cairn free access |
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This study, based on on-site observation and interviews with mail handlers and managers
employed by the French postal service La Poste, was conducted to improve knowledge of
the alcohol consumption and alcoholism-related practices specific to this occupational
milieu. Neither of these sets of practices can be studied in isolation from mail handler
socializing and practices of mutual support in the workplace, or from the social oversight
practices that regulate routine production activity; specifically, the requirement that
managers report “intemperate mail workers”. Analysis of the interdependence between
routine work and alcohol consumption practices sheds light on why managers often show a
passive attitude despite regulations requiring them to report “alcoholic” mail handlers. |
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Drinking and Alcoholism at Work : Ethnography of a French Mail Sorting Center |
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