Julien Charles’s research while affiliated with Catholic University of Louvain and other places

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Publications (2)


Démocratiser, démarchandiser, dépolluer : la contribution des « Territoires Zéro Chômeur de Longue Durée »
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August 2023

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Julien Charles

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Cet article cherche à identifier les contributions et limites de l’expérimentation française « Territoires zéro chômeur de longue durée ». Il situe son ambition dans la contribution aux trois axes historiques de l’émancipation : la démocratisation, la démarchandisation et la définition du modèle de prospérité. Cet examen prend appui sur les rapports d’évaluation disponibles, à partir desquels sont identifiés quatre « seuils » de la participation qui conditionnent la possibilité de réaliser les promesses d’émancipation contenues dans les finalités de l’expérimentation, clarifiées par nos soins à partir de l’énoncé des objectifs des promoteurs du dispositif.


A freelancers’ cooperative as a case of democratic institutional experimentation for better work: a case study of SMart-Belgium

May 2020

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Transfer European Review of Labour and Research

This article discusses the experimentation led by SMart in Belgium, a worker cooperative founded to support freelance artists – and subsequently extended to other freelancers – with the aim of helping them reduce four forms of uncertainties that affect such workers. Over the past 20 years, SMart has sought to secure broader access to social protections for these workers, shifting its strategies to accommodate the changes in rules set by the Belgian federal state. Today, experimentation abounds for various types of intermediation with new forms of employment, but SMart is notable for its ambition to build a cooperative firm providing the protections of wage work to beneficiaries otherwise ignored by social policies. Based on qualitative research conducted from a Deweyan perspective, and 48 in-depth interviews with SMart worker-members, the authors examine the ways in which SMart can be considered an example of democratic institutional experimentation providing collective capabilities to its worker-members in pursuit of better work.

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... In this context, cooperatives emerged across Europe to improve the social protection of the SSE (Martinelli, 2017;Murgia and de Heusch, 2020). To do so, they give the SSE the opportunity to become formal employees of the cooperative while remaining solely responsible for looking after their clients and organising their work (Charles et al., 2020). There is thus a triangular arrangement between the client, who pays the bill, the cooperative, which receives the money and converts it into a wage, and the freelancer, who negotiates with the client while being legally employed by the cooperative (Bodet et al., 2013). ...

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When Labour Diversifies, Its Collective Representation Does Too
A freelancers’ cooperative as a case of democratic institutional experimentation for better work: a case study of SMart-Belgium
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