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The digital platform economy, driven by the advent of mobile Internet and breakthrough technologies such as cloud computing, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence, has become a prominent economic paradigm since the early 2000s. These platforms are reshaping the landscape of labour, serving as intermediaries for the provision of goods and services, and they pose significant challenges to conventional employment and social safety nets. This article explores the origins, development and impacts of digital platforms on work, based on a review of the literature on the subject and on empirical data. The article begins by outlining the emergence of digital platforms, their various forms and the extent of the platform work phenomenon. It then describes the characteristics of platform workers and their employment conditions. Based on data from a survey of young Quebecers working on the Uber and Uber Eats platforms, the article then analyses why they choose this type of employment. The conclusion raises the challenges posed by digital platforms to the regulation of work.

Keywords: Work, Travail, plateformes numériques, digital platforms, impacts, impacts, working conditions, conditions de travail

The article presents some results of a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with multicultural polyglots from different countries. Participants regularly use at least four living languages and have close ties with several countries (family, friends, work, studies, etc.).The study addresses issues related to identity negotiations, distortions in the perception of polyglots’ identity by those around them, the degree of importance given to the recognition of identity as defined by polyglots themselves, the elements retained to define themselves or others, the relationship with the languages used and the role that these languages play in the construction and the definition of identity.

Keywords: polyglot identity, identité de polyglotte, plurilingualism, plurilinguisme, identity negotiations, négociations identitaires

The early Zionist revival movement and the renewed Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel from the beginning of the nineteenth century gained a diverse research interest. Such studies often give the impression that the immediate environment promoting these trends was led exclusively by male leadership. However, it seems that the place of women is almost absent in everything related to the movement, and their promotion is almost wholly. It is possible to exempt reference to this due to the social norms that generally prevailed regarding the function and role of women in Jewish spaces within various communities. Thus, the Jerusalem congregation established a donation fund for the Jewish community in Jerusalem. They imposed on women a fixed tax obligation corresponding to Jewish women's rituals such as Challah, Nida, and candle lighting. Since these dates associated with the lives of Jewish women occurred every week or every month, the sums collected in the funds were fairly substantial. Evidently, they were a significant source of income for Gabayim (treasurers) and Shadarim (emissaries), who originated from Eretz Israel. In this article, the historical background of the fund's establishment, including the use of the funds collected from it, is described.

Keywords: mid-19th cent. Judaism, mid-19th cent. Jerusalem, Jewish women's donations

If we consider Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (also known as Joseph Boulogne or Boullongne 1745-1799) – a decorated military hero whose swordsmanship, fighting and athletic acumen were unparalleled, a contemporary of Mozart whose musical, composing and conducting talent remained unsurpassed – it comes as a surprise that his character was never developed for the theatre until the 1840s, four decades after his death. This, even though the French stage frequently celebrated revolutionary and heroic characters, especially after the revolutionary decree of 1791 that liberated theatres from censorship. The first play to be written about Le Chevalier in France: Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges : comédie mêlée de chant en trois actes by Roger de Beauvoir (1807-1866) and M. Mélesville (1787-1865) made waves when it premiered at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris in February 1840. Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges had all the characteristics to make a spectacular theatrical character with all the archetypal contradictions of the Romantic hero. Some of the reasons for this delay may be obvious: playing a black hero on the post-revolutionary French stage is not a simple feat and comes with a slew of complications related to race and representation, as this article discusses.

Keywords: Saint-Georges, Saint-Georges, Theatical character, personnage de théâtre, performance, Performance, relations interraciales, Race relations, Romanticism, romantisme

Keywords: Leïla Slimani, corps, femmes, Maroc, harem invisible, Le Pays des autres, Regardez-nous danser