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Parental support is a somewhat poorly documented topic in the context of vocational training (VT), compared to other levels of education. Building on a theme-based analysis of 80 interviews conducted with young adults enrolled in VT, we set out to identify the different types of support that these students feel they receive from their parents. Our analysis pointed to a four-part typology of parental attitudes towards their children’s academic pathways—encouraging, demanding, worried, and controlling—each of which corresponds to a different way of providing support. Analyzing these approaches through the lens of social capital and parental attitudes reveals their impact on academic pathways and illustrates the ways in which the young adults concerned can leverage relationship capital to ensure a more or less stable transition to the workplace. However, the same process also tends to reproduce inequalities.

Keywords: vocational training, formation professionnelle, jeunes adultes, young adults, soutien parental, parental support, parental attitudes, attitudes parentales, capital social, social capital

This article explores the dynamics of work within the platform economy, focusing on the experiences of young Uber and Uber Eats workers in Quebec. The authors examine how these workers perceive their job security, freedom of work, and the meaning they ascribe to their professional activity in a context dominated by algorithmic management. The article first highlights the distinction between rights associated with employee status and those associated with the status of an independent worker, the latter being characteristic of the platform economy. The analysis of interview data with 48 young Uber and Uber Eats workers operating in Quebec then leads to three findings. Firstly, young workers express a sense of job security linked to the flexibility and direct access to the job market that platforms provide, despite the absence of traditional social guarantees. Secondly, they highly value the freedom offered by this type of work, especially in terms of autonomy in organizing work and timetable flexibility. However, this freedom is qualified by the dependence on platform algorithms that manage task allocation. Thirdly, the analysis reveals that for these young people, work on the platforms represents a productive participation in society, contrasting with the perception of "empty or meaningless labour" often associated with traditional employment. This experience is perceived as more rewarding because it is directly linked to market demand. Although the platform economy has challenges, particularly in terms of social protection and job security, it nevertheless offers young workers valued opportunities for security, freedom, and meaning in their work.

Keywords: Plateformes numériques, organisation du travail, jeunes, conditions d'emploi, sens du travail

Students have the opportunity to use different digital tools for collaboration purposes, particularly when they engage in research activities or investigations. But these tools can be part of distinct contexts, official or unofficial, depending on those used. Hence the interest in examining the interactive processes at work in both cases, just as the gradual transition from one to the other is likely to explain why the players distance themselves somewhat from the official bodies in order to work together. It is then hypothesized that such transition is capable of giving collective activity an heuristic dimension, notably a propensity for discovery. In this paper, it is put to the test in support of a theoretical field (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning) and data (qualitative/quantitative) from recent studies, bearing in mind that another factor (the size of the groups formed by the students) seems to play a significant role in this matter.

Keywords: collaboration, collaboration, colaboración, colaboração, recherche collective, collective research, pesquisa coletiva, investigación colectiva, interação à distância, interacciones en línea, online interactions, Interactions à distance, technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC), information and communication technologies (ICT), tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC), tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC), students, estudantes, estudiantes, étudiants

This article examines the performativity and limitations of the impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) as corporate social responsibility tools for the mining industry and as potential levers of self-determination for Indigenous communities. These agreements, invested as means for strategic dialogue, enable communities with distinct rights to reaffirm their territorial authority and to negotiate control mechanisms within a framework structured by power dynamics inherited from colonialism. Based on an analysis of an IBA signed in 2014 between a Cree community in Eeyou Istchee and a junior company extracting spodumene, this study explores the tensions and structural constraints inherent to these contractual arrangements. This analysis examines the conditions of IBA reappropriation to make them become genuine emancipation and transformation levers of power relations in the mining industry.

Keywords: Ententes sur les répercussions et avantages (ERA), Impact and benefit agreements (IBA), indigenous self-determination, autodétermination autochtone, responsabilité sociétale des entreprises, corporate social responsibility