L’idéal de métier des libraires spécialisés en littérature jeunesse

• Main Author: Vincent Chabault
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: La Nouvelle Revue du Travail 2017-06-01
• Series: La Nouvelle Revue du Travail
• Subjects: book market; culture; bookstore; professional identit; attitude towards work; youth literature
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nrt/3118

Abstract: This article mobilises a survey based on documentary analysis and interviews to explore the exchange conditions of youth-oriented editorial production using specialist booksellers’ professional identity as a focal point. It starts with the growth and legitimation of independent specialist retailers in a context defined by the resurgence of children’s literature, before moving on to examine how booksellers conceive of their work and envision their role vis-a-vis their books and customers. All in all the article is meant to nourish thinking about two sociological issues: the social conditions associated with cultural goods exchanges resulting from the rising number of subjectively engaged specialist independent retailers; and the construction of a professional ideal (plus the difficulties faced when trying to achieve it).