Évolution d'un espace transfrontalier: le territoire horloger franco-suisse de l'arc jurassien

Moine, Alexandre

doi:10.3406/ingeo.2003.2873

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“…The first analytical threads in this article are based on 20 biographical interviews with company managers or their spouses in a rural environment 13 . All these life stories have been collected in the French-Swiss Jura region, namely via 5 interviews in Switzerland and 15 in France 14 .…”

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“…This territory constitutes an important employment basin for European members. Besides the flow of workers between the two countries, some researchers talk about a shapeless but complementary space (Moine, 2003) regarding the economic and cultural dynamism encouraged by clock-making. The common history between both creates a fertile ground for an international comparison.…”

Section: A the Area Under Study: The Jura French-swiss Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Organization of Rural Microbusinesses Under Specific Family Owners Conditions

Sposito

2015

European Countryside

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The Interreg IV-A research project aims at analysing the socioeconomic consequences of disruptive situations in microbusinesses of the rural French-Swiss Jura region. Several researchers are focusing on this topic within the various institutions involved in the project2. I will rather focus on the common characteristics of microbusinesses on either side of the border. These similarities pertain to the overlapping of the family and business spheres, which often involves an overlapping of statuses, and to the gender relations induced by this overlapping, as well as to the precarious economic situation of these small structures. This article aims at putting into perspective the typology originated by all the biographical interviews collected. This typology compares the figure of the family business heir to that of the self-taught entrepreneur. Such a difference in achieving professional independence brings about strategic patterns of separation/fusion between private and professional lives, patterns which are specific to each above-mentioned ideal type. This typology is yet to be refined, but it already draws attention to the strategies developed by players to separate - or not - family and business spheres. Thus, by tackling the issue of disruption through this typology of company managers, the article will show various influential elements in the event of a disruption, both on the viability of the company and on the personal itinerary of the people involved.

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Section: A the Area Under Study: The Jura French-swiss Regionmentioning

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Organization of Rural Microbusinesses Under Specific Family Owners Conditions

Sposito

2015

European Countryside

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“…Historically the watchmaking industry is mainly located in the French-Swiss cross-border region (Moine, 2003).…”

Section: History Of the Watchmaking Industry In The Upper Rhône Rivermentioning

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“…Concerning France, to our knowledge no incinerator was functioning in Besancon and its periphery before the 1990s neither for domestic wastes nor for tritiated compounds. In addition, as employees might have worked also from home in the periphery of this city (Moine, 2003), it complicates the quantification of tritium residues diffused in the environment. In the absence of information it is suggested that some of the waste might have reached landfills without much control.…”

Section: History Of the Watchmaking Industry In The Upper Rhône Rivermentioning

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Trajectories of technogenic tritium in the Rhône River (France)

Morereau

Lepage

Claval

et al. 2020

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

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Tritium is a radioisotope of hydrogen with a half-life of 12.32 years and was used for its luminescent properties by the watchmaking industry from 1962 to the 2008. Tritiated luminescent salts were integrated in the paints applied on the index and dial of watches and clocks. French and Swiss watchmaking workshops used more than 28 000 TBq of tritium over this period of time and produced almost 350 million watches. Despite the end of tritiated salts use in watchmaking workshops in 1992 in France and 2008 in Switzerland, high level of organically bound tritium (OBT) are still observed in sediments of the Rhône River downstream the Lake Geneva. Contamination of the Rhône River by tritiated hot particles since 1962 up to nowadays remains poorly documented. In order to assess the long term behavior and fate of technogenic tritium in this river and its trajectories in the river system, two sediment cores were collected at the upstream (UC) and downstream (DC) part of the Rhône River in France and OBT contents were determined. For both sedimentary cores, maximum OBT contents were registered over the 1980s when tritium was intensively used by watchmaking industries. These residual OBT contents are 1.000 to 10 000 fold higher than current natural background levels in riverine sediments. The OBT contents progressively decreased since 1989 with close effective half-life in upstream and downstream area (5 ± 2 years). The OBT contents were lower in DC than in UC due to the dilution by uncontaminated sediments delivered by tributaries not affected by the watchmaking industries. Trajectories analysis indicates that the resiliency of the Rhône River system in regards to this contamination would be reached in 14-70 years and in 14-28 years respectively for the upstream and downstream part of the river.

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Baudelle²

2009

l'Europe - Aménager Les Territoires

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Évolution d'un espace transfrontalier: le territoire horloger franco-suisse de l'arc jurassien

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Organization of Rural Microbusinesses Under Specific Family Owners Conditions

Organization of Rural Microbusinesses Under Specific Family Owners Conditions

Trajectories of technogenic tritium in the Rhône River (France)

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