This project aims at examining how people balanced work and family during the lockout, intersecting their practices with an analysis of social inequalities, in particularly the ones due to class and gender, located in contrasting national contexts. Ultimately, we offer an analysis of the transformations brought about in terms of job retention and the pursuit of a professional career (especially for mothers), the organization of work and its articulation with family commitments, education and pedagogical continuity. To cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and control the spread of the virus, many governments around the world have opted for more or less flexible lockout measures. Confinement has thus forced couples with children to carry out in a single space several activities that usually take place in different places and at different times : professional work, domestic work and parental work have been carried out simultaneously by parents. In addition to these circumstances, these parents could no longer rely on the mediations involved in family arrangements. This situation questions two structuring activities of contemporary family organizations, namely employment and professional working conditions on the one hand, and parental work in education on the other hand. Along with the differentiated experiences of confinement according to social classes, our study jointly questions the way in which gendered orders are transformed in the couple andthe family, but also in employment and at work. This research will take place in three countries of the European space: France, Sweden and Switzerland. The choice of observation sites is justified by their highly differentiated management of the pandemic and by the fact that they are part of distinct regimes of social state (from the Swiss liberal or residual type to the Swedish social democracy through the French conservative corporatism). In each country, there will be twenty family monographs produced. We will target families composed of a couple and at least one child aged 0 to 12, variating according to local stratifications, social properties, employment positions and places of residence. In each family, we will conduct at least two recorded interviews with two family members about : the living environment, the trajectories of the family members (social, school, residential, professional, conjugal, etc.); family organization and work/family articulation before, during and after lockout (distribution of childcare and home care, family rhythms - school, professional, etc.); employment and work conditions, sociability and leisure practices of family members; school and extra-curricular achievements during confinement; family relationships and practices (sociability, occupations, etc.). The collection of materials will begin in September 2020, for a period of three months. We would like to recruit families between June and July, before any holidays, in order to ensure that the monographs will start in September. This rapid implementation of the protocol will allow us to collect the experiences of lockout and ils aftermaths as close as possible to their experiences, before the memories lose their sharpness. The results obtained will show the difficulties encountered by the families and will identify concrete actions in the event of a new pandemic. They may help in their decisions partners interested in questions of work organization and working conditions, dedicated to school and wider family issues, or mobilized by gender equality issues.

The institutionalization of programs that signal corporate virtue, usually placed under the heading of “Corporate social responsibility”, is a central feature of the contemporary mutations of capitalism. While most studies focus on CSR discourse and devices, this project offers an innovative take on « responsible capitalism », by placing the lens on its managers, their work activities and their professional milieus. Through its focus on CSR professionals, the ProVirCap project pursues a triple theoretical ambition: 1/ to shed light on the reconfiguration of the borders between the market, the state, and civil society; 2/ to understand the transformations of professionalism in global companies; 3/ and to examine the ways in which gender shapes the virtuous face of capitalism. Carried out by a team of nine researchers renowned for their expertise on various management fields associated with CSR, the project will benefit from the cross-fertilization of several analytical perspectives: sociology of work, professions and organizations, economic sociology, political science, management studies, as well as gender studies. The research design combines qualitative (in-depth interviews, observations) and quantitative methods (CV scraping, questionnaire survey), and relies on a double comparison: between management fields associated with CSR (sustainable development, responsible investment, diversity and work quality, human rights, corporate giving, ethics) and between national cases (France, USA, Spain). The close dialogue with an international, interdisciplinary expert committee will anchor the project in a transnational field of research on responsible capitalism. The dissemination of the results among professionals of the sector, beyond academic circles, will help promote social sciences in a field that is particularly receptive to exchanges with academia, and contribute to the reflection around the transformation of capitalism – an issue that, against the background of the Covid-19 crisis, appears ever more vital for contemporary societies.

The interdisciplinary team (business and accounting, computer science, economics, econometrics and sociology) intends to describe the causes and consequences of downsizing and to assess its causal effect upon the performances of companies, at the firm and group levels, in contemporary France (1996-2015). The team uses the econometric methods developed for evaluation studies, notably the differences-in-differences model using propensity-score matching. Then, the team focuses on the impact of sales shocks on employment changes. The team also assesses the survival bias that depends on the probability for a company to go bankrupt. The team combines sources that are hardly matched (LIFI, DADS, DMMO, BRN, FARE, FICUS and BODACC) and develops an original database. It relates these information for stand-alone companies and it enriches these sources for subsidiaries with the consolidated annual accounts of the groups that are listed in the CAC All-Tradable and the downsizing operations that have occured withhin their perimeters.

The objective of AMAGRI is to promote the reduction of antibiotic use in livestock farming in order to address the problem of antimicrobial resistance in the agri-food sector, by contributing to the development of socio-economic innovations for prescription, delivery and rational use of antibiotics in veterinary medicine. This is a major issue for public health, food security and ecosystem management, as reducing antibiotic use is one of the keys to encouraging the development of sustainable production models. By seeking to understand, on the one hand, how the dominant model of intensive livestock farming supported by an extensive use of antibiotics has been established, and by encouraging, on the other hand, the current dynamics that are striving to reduce this technical, economic and cultural dependence to veterinary drugs, AMAGRI contributes to the transition towards an "agro-ecological" production model that allows better control of the health and environmental risks posed by the phenomenon of antimicrobial resistance. Although the use of antibiotics in livestock farming is now tending to decrease in France and Europe, it is still necessary to identify the structural determinants and levers of action that allow this trend, in order to strengthen and sustain it. Until now, research has focused on actors' perceptions and technical alternatives to antibiotics, but does not question the effects of public policies regulating veterinary drugs or the professional and economic dynamics of the animal health sector. On the contrary, we hypothesize that the transformation of veterinary medicine practices, knowledge and working and organizational models, in connection with veterinary drug policies, plays a major role in the evolution of antibiotic use in animal husbandry and the development of innovative agri-food production models. AMAGRI is an interdisciplinary social science project that articulates historical and political science research on the evolution of veterinary drug regulation and public debates on antimicrobial resistance, and sociological and economic research on the contemporary transformations of the professional and economic model of rural veterinary practices. The aim is to produce, for the first time in France, a global analysis of the issue of antibiotic use in livestock farming. The project traces on the one hand the genesis of this public problem and the public policies supposed to deal with it, and on the other hand evaluates the impact of recent measures and their articulation with the current socio-economic dynamics contributing to the transition towards preventive veterinary medicine and rational use of antibiotics. AMAGRI is led by a team of researchers specialized in animal health issues, the veterinary profession and veterinary medicines. It will make a significant contribution to the social science literature and interdisciplinary approaches that have addressed the problem of antimicrobial resistance too little so far, and will also promote the development of national and international academic networks on this major issue. In addition, AMAGRI will have a strong societal impact through its interactions throughout the project and beyond with veterinary professional organizations and the veterinary administration of the Ministry of Agriculture. The work carried out within the project will be in line with the priorities of stakeholders concerned by the antimicrobial resistance problem and will promote the implementation of innovative socio-economic solutions to reduce the use of antibiotics in livestock farming.

The ALCoV project (Local Comparative Analyses of Voting: political distrust, abstention and radicalisation in contemporary France) seeks to understand the evolution of citizens’ behaviour in the face of contemporary transformations of democracy in France: crisis of consent, abstention, and radical choices such as support for the National Front. More precisely, the project suggests an ambitious framework for the analysis of voting and abstention during the 2017 presidential and legislative elections. It aims to combine different methods for the observation of electoral participation and choices. In particular, its ambition is to use both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The quantitative study will be conducted at two levels. First, it will rely on a secondary analysis of INSEE’s inquiry on participation, which provides key data to identify the factors behind political and electoral indifference. Second, in order to understand the contextual and cultural dimensions of electoral participation and/or radicalisation, the study will focus on specific local cases: seven constituencies in the PACA; Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie; Bourgogne and Franche Comté; and Ile-de-France regions. In these constituencies, we will analyse the turnout records of several polling stations and conduct exit polls. In these local cases, we will also undertake a qualitative study, notably based on an ambitious plan of repeated individual interviews with a panel of voters, and on the direct observation of contrasted territories. We suggest to combine the analysis of voters with that of the political offer: we will follow the campaign of parties and candidates, using qualitative interviews and observations. The project will be conducted by a team of twenty scholars in five research centres. It will build on the skills of experienced researchers, who during the last decade have contributed to experimenting new ways of investigating electoral behaviour. The project seeks to bring together a network of innovative social scientists capable of renewing electoral studies in France. The originality of the project lies in the combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches for the parallel study of voting and the political offer, both at the national and local level, notably in order to understand the contextual and cultural dimensions of electoral participation. In particular, this project would be the first to combine on a large scale the use of national data on participation and abstention, and a local study based on exit polls and in-depth interviews, in connection with a localised analysis of the political offer and the work for electoral mobilisation during all the electoral period (from autumn 2016 to june 2017) including legislative elections.