Encoding the workforce: when jobseekers in Germany and France are guided by the software they find

Clouet, Hadrien

doi:10.4000/nrt.8668

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“…Both German and French PES use a specific software that allows them to electronically match jobseekers with vacancies (Clouet, 2021; Freier and Senghaas, 2022). The software relies on an electronic ‘case file’ containing jobseekers’ qualifications and formal degrees.…”

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Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany

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Freier

Senghaas

2022

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Based on participant observations in the French and German public employment services (PES), this article proposes a new way of analysing bureaucratic encounters following Bourdieu’s capital theory. We show that caseworkers who are supposed to support jobseekers into employment, force the allegedly needy jobseekers to accumulate capital, but only in its cultural or social form, and never both at the same time. While there are national differences in the accumulation process, the findings highlight the coexistence of two different strategies: accumulation of cultural capital for a long-term and stable return to employment or accumulation of social capital for a short-term and temporary access to employment. Caseworkers attribute different importance to each type of capital, which results in an uneven distribution that reproduces inequalities through social policy services.

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Section: The Purpose Of the Bureaucratic Encounters: Social And Cultu...mentioning

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Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany

Clouet

Freier

Senghaas

2022

Critical Social Policy

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Encoding the workforce: when jobseekers in Germany and France are guided by the software they find

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Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany

Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany

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