Sortie de rails | Léon Cornec

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Rail Exit

Léon Cornec

Release date : 07/03/2019

An astonishing voyage into France’s underground, a world of rail workers and the troubles they face on a daily basis.

When our narrator joins Htransport—a company specializing in the manufacture and upkeep of the rail system—as a temporary worker, he is proud and motivated to work for what is seen as the pinnacle of French industry.
But as he climbs the corporate ladder, he discovers the company’s inner workings, including its... When our narrator joins Htransport—a company specializing in the manufacture and upkeep of the rail system—as a temporary worker, he is proud and motivated to work for what is seen as the pinnacle of French industry.
But as he climbs the corporate ladder, he discovers the company’s inner workings, including its ambitious projects, but also its human errors and surprising methods. He discovers accidents, a lack of safety precautions for workers, the turnover of overqualified temp workers, general disorganization, the dilapidated state of materials, theft, alcoholism, mistakes that could cause serious risks for passengers, and directors’ decisions that make French engineering subservient to foreign countrie
Outside the company, the narrator also exposes a France plunged into misery. From the rail workers who are slowly wasting away to the population he observes during his business trips in modern no man’s lands, the peripheral zones of Paris and provincial towns, with their one-room apartments, slums, vague terrains, disused hangars, or even, in hidden away places, the Transilien suburban railway.
Rail Exit tells of a disillusioned employee who nearly loses his life, and, through his eyes, the unbelievable faults of one of the jewels of French industry.

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