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SummaryWith the coming of the new technologies (NT), we are witness to radical and far-reaching structural changes in the state and in the law. The capacity of NTs to process enormous quantities of data at prodigious speeds and the development of artificial intelligence have had as a consequence that the administration of justice can now be automated. It is even possible to conceive of a system for preventive social hygiene, a system which is already partially in place in West Germany. Such a revolution is closer to the Brave New World than to 1984. Nevertheless, structures for self-management can, in principle, be set up with the help of NTs. But to do this, another technology, a democratized NT, would have to be developed.
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SummaryThis article in the form of an essay, defends the hypothesis of the lack of adaptability of the form of the trade union to newdimensions of modernity, characterized by the breakdown of the poles of the individual, consumption, nation and workplace.Consequently, there exists today an incompatibility between the requirements of post-industrial society, the requirements ofthe individual (as citizens and producers) and what trade unions offer (as project and organization). That being the case, tradeunionism (its orientations, practices, and structures) can be seen as inappropriate in its claim to play a major role in the reconstructionof modernity and in the promotion of the individual (personal subject).
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The future of the sociology of labour as a specific field of sociology has undergone considcrable questioning over the past two dccades, under the combined effects of the development of the field itself and of the substantial transformations in the working world. The sociology of labour in the French language universities in Quebec is examined here in light of its origins, of the main influences that have been exercised on its institutional and professional development, and of the themes and concerns that have polarized the activities of researchers. The development of teaching and research, the growing importance of publications and of the production of dissertations and theses, as well as the hiring of many labour sociologists outside the academic sector, show that after a fairly slow start, labour sociology has become quite a lively field. However, it is based on a tradition that is still fragile and it is increasingly in danger of breaking apart.