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Didier Demazière et al., « Unemployed people facing future work: Analyzing occupational expectations as ‘feasible work’ », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.3280/sl2021-161009
This article explores how unemployed people think of employment and work, in a context of scarcity of jobs and deteriorating terms of employment. It is our view that unemployment reorganizes unemployed people’s relationship to occupational norms and statuses as a result of their being subject to the uncertainties involved in job-hunting and wondering what they can realistically hope for, expect and demand. We suggest that the concept of “feasible work” may prove useful in theorizing about how unemployment changes employment and work, using the case of self-employment as an example. Our analysis draws on in-depth interviews with unemployed people registered with the French public employment service. This study suggests that unemployment leads to a reconsideration of occupational expectations in response to the difficulties of getting a job. Then, it shows that the extent to which unemployed people sign up to these expectations varies widely, depending on the biographical and relational resources they have. Finally, it argues that sociological research would benefit from studying the relationship between unemployment and employment by redefining the latter as feasible work.