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4089.More information
The Anecdotes de notre temps depuis 1715 à 1736 is a set of 52 manuscript volumes acquired by the Royal Library in 1789 during the sale after the death of the Duke of Richelieu. Archivists itemized the majority of the volumes in the early 19th century and the documents in these volumes got dispersed in different thematic collections of the National Library of France. They generally combined a text and an image and referred to as anecdotes. Fortunately, a particular stamp assures their traceability and permits to identify them in the National Library. In this manner, an anonymous volume preserves around forty anecdotes containing 67 drawings and engravings of fauna and flora concerning the French colonial empire. A reconstruction was made through an intra-inter-trans structuralist approach to reconstruct first the micro-stories behind each anecdote in order to infirm the date of most of the iconographic documents. This approach also made it possible to determine the nature of the collection in the 19th century but also to identify invariabilities leading to the involvement of Antoine-Denis Raudot, class-intendant and secretary of the French Navy. It is believed that this corpus represents in fact the “pre-anecdotes” until Raudot's death in 1737, from which the Count of Maurepas must have drawn in order to partially compile the 52 volumes of Anecdotes de notre temps during his exile (1749-1774). This result and the fact that Raudot's went to New France (1705-1710) as a second clerk now permitted to identify a second set of eight Canadian anecdotes and to be presented here. The transfer of Raudot's “pre-anecdotes” corpus to Maurepas is explained partially by various events that occurred in 1737, the year when Raudot died (heritage, appropriation, saving).
Keywords: Secrétariat de la Marine, Jardin du Roi, Académie des Sciences, Compagnie des Indes, Cabinet de Curiosités, Circulation des savoirs, Cultures coloniales, Colonies françaises, Iconographie, Premières Nations, Comte de Maurepas, Antoine-Denis Raudot, Duc de Richelieu, Le Masson du Parc, Pierre Le Chevalier, Jussieu, XVIII siècle
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4090.More information
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