https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/In-the-Land-of-Logistics https://booksandideas.net/In-the-Land-of-Logistics 2024-05-09T06:25:59Z text/html en Gilles Paché Society capitalism industry transports logistics Cairn.info <p>By analysing a generalised process of “logistisation”, Mathieu Quet shows that the circulation of people and goods is at the heart of our societies. But has logistics also captured language and the living world?</p> https://booksandideas.net/Logistical-Meanderings https://booksandideas.net/Logistical-Meanderings 2019-01-07T07:00:00Z text/html en Carlotta Benvegnù & David Gaborieau Society labour sociology flexibility working class Institut français logistics warehouse <p>The term ‘logistics' refers to work connected to warehouses: storage, order packing, handling etc. These activities, which are often too arduous to be carried out over the long term, now structure the condition of the working classes and their career paths.</p>