In this useful little book, several sociologists and political
scientists trace the history of unemployment monitoring by studying the
evolution of procedures and discourses since the beginning of the 20th
century. The four authors and the author met, not without difficulty,
with France Travail employees, even though monitoring and verification
operations have been entrusted since 2015 to new dedicated teams with
quantified objectives. ---- The creation of France Travail in 2024 aimed
to "make employment a driver of prosperity and social cohesion":
managerial language accompanies an ever-increasing precariousness in the
world of work and increased surveillance of registered individuals.
France Travail claims to provide more and better support to users by
making monitoring a "lever for remobilization." This rhetoric is more
widely accepted by staff, whereas former Pôle Emploi employees may have
opposed these missions, considering that they are supposed to support users.
Successive governments have increased the number of checks to be carried
out by tightening the conditions for accessing benefits (requiring more
months of work for a reduced amount and duration) and by increasingly
relying on algorithms. The result: fewer and fewer registered people are
receiving benefits (less than 50% today).
Not to mention those who refuse to register due to ignorance of their
rights or fear of checks. The rise in unemployment is the responsibility
of individuals and owes nothing to the capitalist system! Thus, if many
job offers go unfilled (including bogus ads, offers offering two hours
of work per week, very arduous work paid at minimum wage, etc.), it's
because the recipients refuse to cross the street!
This pressure on the unemployed obviously contributes to tipping the
balance of power between employees and employers in favor of the latter.
Governments are introducing reform after reform without measuring them
or publishing the few available evaluations. It must be said that they
challenge the myth of the idle unemployed and of monitoring as a proven
way to return to full employment.
Gile (Brest supporter)
Hadrien Clouet, Vincent Dubois, Jean-Marie Pillon, Luc Sigalo Santos,
and Claire Vivès, Unemployed, Your Papers! Controlling the unemployed to
reduce unemployment?, Raisons d'agir, September 2023, 204 pages, 13 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Chomeurs-vos-papiers
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scientists trace the history of unemployment monitoring by studying the
evolution of procedures and discourses since the beginning of the 20th
century. The four authors and the author met, not without difficulty,
with France Travail employees, even though monitoring and verification
operations have been entrusted since 2015 to new dedicated teams with
quantified objectives. ---- The creation of France Travail in 2024 aimed
to "make employment a driver of prosperity and social cohesion":
managerial language accompanies an ever-increasing precariousness in the
world of work and increased surveillance of registered individuals.
France Travail claims to provide more and better support to users by
making monitoring a "lever for remobilization." This rhetoric is more
widely accepted by staff, whereas former Pôle Emploi employees may have
opposed these missions, considering that they are supposed to support users.
Successive governments have increased the number of checks to be carried
out by tightening the conditions for accessing benefits (requiring more
months of work for a reduced amount and duration) and by increasingly
relying on algorithms. The result: fewer and fewer registered people are
receiving benefits (less than 50% today).
Not to mention those who refuse to register due to ignorance of their
rights or fear of checks. The rise in unemployment is the responsibility
of individuals and owes nothing to the capitalist system! Thus, if many
job offers go unfilled (including bogus ads, offers offering two hours
of work per week, very arduous work paid at minimum wage, etc.), it's
because the recipients refuse to cross the street!
This pressure on the unemployed obviously contributes to tipping the
balance of power between employees and employers in favor of the latter.
Governments are introducing reform after reform without measuring them
or publishing the few available evaluations. It must be said that they
challenge the myth of the idle unemployed and of monitoring as a proven
way to return to full employment.
Gile (Brest supporter)
Hadrien Clouet, Vincent Dubois, Jean-Marie Pillon, Luc Sigalo Santos,
and Claire Vivès, Unemployed, Your Papers! Controlling the unemployed to
reduce unemployment?, Raisons d'agir, September 2023, 204 pages, 13 euros.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Chomeurs-vos-papiers
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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