Work better

How to improve working conditions ? This new opus of the Puf/Vie des idées collection launches proposals to improve the quality of work and employment, at a time of climate transition and technological change.

Christine Erhel, Bruno Palier, Work betterPuf/Life of ideas, Special issue, 2025, 222 p., €18. Contributed to this work: Laurent Cappelleti, Thomas Coutrot, Jérôme Gautié, Nathalie Moncel, Coralie Perez and Anne Rodier.

The French, although strongly attached to work, suffer from a lack of recognition, vertical management, the intensification and digitalization of tasks which call into question the meaning and future of work.

How to improve working conditions ? How to change your organizational and management methods ? How to use new technologies to improve work ? How to work in times of climate change ? How to build recognition of essential professions ?

Drawing on experiences and examples that have proven themselves in companies and in public policies, in France but also abroad, the authors of this work provide proposals for improving the quality of work and employment, at a time of climate transition and technological change.

Table of contents

Foreword, by Christine Erhel & Bruno Palier

Introduction. Working better, a social, economic, environmental and political issue, for Christine Erhel & Bruno Palier

Improving the quality of employment and work: from business practices to international regulation, through Christine Erhel

Establish the “ say » about his work, by Thomas Coutrot & Coralie Perez

How to sustainably improve French management ?, by Laurent Cappelletti

For a AI in favor of workersits, by Jérôme Gautié & Coralie Perez

Work better in the time of ecological transition, by Nathalie Moncel

Why business leaders should care about labor research Anne Rodier

Of “ low cost » to quality for all, a new prosperity strategy for France, by Bruno Palier

Suggestions for “ Work better »

Commented bibliography.