Olivier Crasset is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre nantais de sociologie (UMR 6025) and teaches at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale where he is an associate member of Labers (EA 3149). He has published La santé des artisans (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017), as well as contributions to collective works and scientific articles on the subject of self-employed workers.
As an ironworker himself, he has welcomed anthropologist and filmmaker J.-C. Moine in his studio for an interview.