The aim of this work is to introduce the French-speaking public to Disability Studies, which emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom at the end of the 1970s, in line with the social movements of disabled people fighting against their exclusion from society.

This book, which has now become a classic of the French sociology of work, is the result of an empirical investigation by participant observation of workshop work in a large metallurgical company in Lyon in the 1970s. this book will enlighten all those who are interested in work and its changes.

This book presents the historical trajectory and the social mechanisms that allowed machines to become the central techniques in the emergence of "modern" and "productive" agriculture. At the intersection of the history and sociology of agriculture, technology, labour and the environment, the book identifies the political and fiscal mechanisms.

Do objects have power? How do they contribute to the constantly renewed construction of social power relations? As part of the "material turn" in the social sciences, this book shows that material objects are both operators and indicators of the mechanisms of power and domination that structure societies and their spaces.

Between 1871 and the 1920s, rural banditry was one of the main forms of protest against the colonial authorities. Focusing on the trajectories and horizons of the actors themselves, this book seeks to shed light on a phenomenon that set itself up as a counterweight to the triumph of colonial domination.