Review of the book "Les équipes parlementaires des eurodéputés.

Summary Considered from the perspective of work or profession, political professions are now among the objects of sociology, beyond the sole perimeter of the social sciences of politics. Sébastien Michon's book claims to be part of this line. It invites us to pay attention to the European parliamentary space, relatively neglected in favor of its national or local counterparts, and to take an interest in parliamentary work by focusing not on its "stage" (embodied by the hemicycle), but on its "backstage", populated by assistants who form the empirical object of the study. The underlying questioning, inspired by Pierre Bourdieu, concerns the nature of the capital that these positions allow to accumulate. It sheds original light on the nature of parliamentary work in this particular political space that is the European Parliament (EP), and is based on the exploitation of abundant material, both qualitative (interviews and ethnographic observations, which are used sparingly in the book) and quantitative [First paragraph].