Reviewing forty years of Work and Employment.

Summary To what extent does the evolution of the articles published since 1979 in Work and Employment draw a coherent story? To try to answer this question, we propose an analysis of the articles that have appeared in the journal over the last four decades, based on their titles and keywords. Three types of arguments are mobilized to account for and shed light on this history. As Travail et Emploi was initially an administrative journal, published by the Ministry of Labour, the evolution of its articles is partly linked to the ups and downs of legislative news, public policies and statistical production. It can also be partly due to the changes in the way social sciences look at work and employment from the moment Travail et Emploi became a resolutely academic journal. Finally, these evolutions also reflect, quite naturally, the real and profound transformations of work and employment in the field, in the lives of workers and enterprises.