Overconsumption: What impact for workers?
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By: Emmanuelle Bastide |
Kpénahi Traoré Follow
50 mins
If the covid-19 pandemic has restricted our movements, and constrained our purchases and our leisure activities, it has not however curbed our needs and our desires to consume.
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With applications, online sites, it is indeed possible to order books, fruits and vegetables or even clothes in a few clicks 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without having to wait weeks for delivery.
This demand-driven economy where the consumer is king was not born out of this health crisis, but the trend seems to be taking hold over the long term, with more and more sectors concerned.
It is therefore not only our consumption habits that are changing, but also those of those who produce them.
What consequences for workers?
Should we review our consumption?
Has Consumer Heaven Really Become Worker's Hell?
With:
Denis Pennel
, labor market and human resources specialist.
Author of
The Consumers' Paradise Became The Worker's Hell (Editions du Panthéon)
Adrien Pinon
, director, co-director with Thomas Lafarge of the documentary
The world according to Amazon (Little Big Story and Productions du Rapide-blanc)
A column by
Kpenahi Traoré
, journalist at RFI
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