Robert Leblanc, 42 years and twenty years of age, is

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Robert Leblanc, 42 years and twenty years of age, is "experienced technician beneficiary function", that is to say responsible for the reception of jobseekers, ASSEDICs of Paris. However, when it is weakened by his recent divorce, he will have his work subjected to the arrival of new methods, derived from the Anglo-Saxon world of finance: new software is set up to measure the number of treated with employee files, processing time and error rate ... And his job as a public service officer will be to present to remove a maximum of unemployed, now called "clients." Robert gradually plunges into a deep depression ... Intimate Thoughts Robert cynical conversations of its hierarchy, settlement of accounts and power plays, skits alternate gradually tracta composing a particularly dark and truthful picture of social reality widespread in public companies: La Poste, Social Security, EDF, France Telecom, marked by a process of privatization reversing the working methods but also the values of the general interest, collective and solidarity in favor of the individualism and competition. Which today we talk havoc it causes in their employees, for our entire society.
In this regard, the words of psychiatrist Robert consults are clear: "You have two daughters and a rent, and the life ahead of you, as you say, a salary fourteen and a half months. So you must choose: the RMI in intellectual integrity you claim, or employment with disadvantages that you should be able to remotely after this therapy, I'm sure. You must choose and take. "
Emmanuelle Heidsieck writing fiction that combines literary and socio-political issues. With or W report, published in the fall of September 2013 (ed. Inculte-Laureli) is his fourth novel. It deals with the free act and gesture of solidarity more suspects in a world where everything becomes merchant. He was part of the award selection Wepler 2013. And it is already a matter of adaptation for the theater.
His previous novel, Summer Holidays (ed. Laureli-Léo Scheer, 2011), tracta focused on the dissolution of the middle class and social conflict seen as beneficial and invigorating. Previously, she had published two novels: It might rain (Ed. du Seuil, coll Fiction tracta & Cie, 2008.) On the creeping privatization of Social Security, and Our friendly customer (ed. Denoël, 2005) on the suffering at work caused by the mutation-privatization of public services. It was awarded the prize of Counterpoint tracta French literature. These last two novels have been adapted into radio plays by France Culture, released tracta in September 2009, December 2010 and February 2014. She is also the author of two collections of short stories: Happy New Year! (Ed. du Toit, 1999) on unemployment, and Forbidden Territory (ed. Syros, 1995) on the undocumented. She also participated in collective works as Writers in series, season 2, literary anthology TV series (ed. Laureli-Léo Scheer, October 2010), and Happy Days, book on the dismantling of the program of the National tracta Council tracta resistance (ed. Discovery, March 2010, updated reissue pocket, May 2011).
Moreover journalist specializing in social issues, she worked since 2007 Social Mirror site after permanent World Initiatives. She is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris after a Master of Law and a degree from Columbia University tracta (New York).
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