Precariousness, a norm imposed on young women from the rural working classes

La précarité, une norme imposée aux jeunes femmes des classes populaires rurales

Perrine Agnoux ()
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Perrine Agnoux: CMW - Centre Max Weber - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, INSPÉ Lyon - Institut national supérieur du professorat et de l'éducation - Académie de Lyon - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon

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Abstract: This article highlights injunctions made upon young women from rural working classes when entering the labor market and the consequences on their professional trajectories. Based on an ethnographic survey of women holding a vocational baccalauréat certificate in the medical-social sector, it shows that not all young women have the family support required to conform to the model of the young worker, as defined by employment policies and institutions, particularly necessary in rural areas. Girls from precarious parts of society, whose experience of independence is brutal, struggle to find stability because of their discrepancies with this model, while the normalization of precarity favors the exploitation of those who benefit from parental support when entering the labor market.

Keywords: professional stabilization; gender; working classes; age; rural areas; unpaid work; stabilisation professionnelle; genre; classes populaires; âge; mondes ruraux; travail gratuit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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Published in Nouvelle Revue du travail, 2023, Assigné·e·s au sous-emploi, 23, ⟨10.4000/nrt.14414⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/nrt.14414

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