The Other Places for Entrepreneurship and Wage-earning in rural areas

The current practices of entrepreneurship and wage-earning in rural areas are contributing to the emergence of singular working collective spaces. This socio-economic phenomenon offers challenging and promising prospects. Thus, rural actors have been able to invent ways of doing things together in shared places to break with isolation and solitude and, above all, to innovate in a societal transitional project, under the following dimensions such as: economic, social, governance, local development model. Our research field is located in western France. The result show that the founders of these kind of "third places" must find a balance between an intention that leaves room for the collective and a real life of cooperation in order to co-construct a "true" common project. Concerned with "mobile" workers, those Other Places of Entrepreneurship and Employees (OPEE) contribute to the development of territories hitherto held back in their economic and social development. We think that the main difference between urban coworking space and "our" OPEE is the own target for each space if they are in rural area or littoral one. Indeed, the urban Working Space try to catch rather individual business opportunities than collective goal(s). However, on the other hand, rural OPEE can be considered like local development tools for improving the attractivity of local territories, to experiment a new local development model. Therefore, OPEE can be associated with the "Social and Solidarity Economy". In others words, under the pandemic crisis of Covid-19 and the generalization of the distance work, we may be facing a new kind of personal development model which responds to personal wishes and new organizational collective challenges: a social innovation in favour of a better collective well-being, with another relationship to time and to space.