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François Dubet

Injustices. L’expérience des inégalités au travail

• François Dubet, avec Valérie Caillet, Régis Cortéséro, David Mélo, Françoise Rault
  Paris, Seuil, mars 2006
  (édition en anglais: Injustice at Work, Boulder, London, Paradigm Publishers, 2009)
  
  
  
  
  
  The experience of unfairness and inequality at Work
  In the world of work, what inequalities are perceived by our fellow citizens as being socially unjust? On every page a plethora of examples demonstrate, corroborate and disturb. Why do people feel they are despised? Why do they think their situation is vulnerable? Why do they think they are being exploited while others enjoy preferential treatment? Finally, why do people feel alienated, and unable to fulfil themselves in their jobs ?
  This inventory of suffering at work is complex; protesting against injustice implies revealing what justice means or ought to mean. We have here a minute analysis of the reverse side of the complaints recorded: belief in equality, recognition of merit, desire for autonomy. Behind the "black book" of the world of work, the author and his research team outline the contours of the values which we share. They report on the feeling of injustice when confronted with the realities of social life. They then leave us to judge, carefully avoiding any suggestion of policy to be implemented.

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