Étudier le travail au ras du sol. Une enquête sur le travail en agriculture biologique

Abstract

Studying work at ground level. A survey of work in organic farming. Working on an object that has been little explored in sociological literature involves trial and error, which means that the approach to the field must be constantly rethought. This is the case with agricultural work, which has hardly been studied from the point of view of the activity and risks taken by the workers. The aim of this article is to describe the difficulties encountered during the production of Master and a PhD’s thesis on work in organic farming. The aim of this article is to show how, on the basis of a project dealing with occupational health among employees in diversified organic market gardening, the survey made it possible to reveal different work and employment configurations involving the opening up of the field of investigation to all organic vegetable production in the region studied.