Starting with the claim for collective equipment put forward by certain groups of the women's liberation movement, the author studies the case of a holiday village, in so far as it is a point of socialization of domestic tasks under the aegis
of organizations for social tourism, in a situation where it reproduces the particular labour force constituted by holidays with pay. The first part shows the production process of the collective equipment of a holiday village, in a plan for the urbanization
of the Languedoc and Roussillon coastline, and the contradictions which arise from the respective strategies of the central state and of organizations of the workers'movement. More precisely, the solution to these contradictions situates the holiday village