Claire LE BRETON is an Assistant Professor of Sustainability and Sociology of Work. She focuses on the role of technology and social dynamics in emerging forms of work. As an ethnographer, her approach to knowledge is grounded in immersion, enabling a nuanced, respectful, and reflective understanding of field realities and their actors. This method allows her to study how new challenges—brought about by communication and organizational methods based on disembodied media—transform the ways of living and working together to which we have grown accustomed. Her research themes are deeply tied to reflections on the social and environmental sustainability of technological and organizational innovations shaping contemporary society. She has published several articles on these topics in international academic journals, and her work has been featured in popular media outlets such as The Conversation.

Claire Le Breton is a graduate of emlyon business school (Grande École Program and Master of Philosophy in Management) and Lyon 3 University (Master’s in Research in Management). She earned her PhD in Management from emlyon business school in 2021.

Areas of expertise:

New forms of work

Precarity and sustainability

Role of social hierarchies (class, race, gender) within organizations

Alternative organizations

Ethnography and research ethics