Brugière, Fabien

Between Deviance and Defense: Cannabis Consumption among Airport Handling Agents - 2016.


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This article studies cannabis consumption in the workplace among ground handling agents working in airports. To do so, it relies on ethnographic research based on the method of participant observation, which took place from 2010 and 2012 within an airport located in the Paris region. The professional context of employment casualization and work intensification put the employees of subcontracted ground handling services under pressure and increased stress and other psychological discomfort at work. We can observe the (minor) use of cannabis behind and besides the