ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the effect of precarious forms of occupational integration on political attitudes, by seeking to verify several hypotheses which have been the subject of studies. It describes occupational integration and its deviant forms, which will then lead to the analysis of the attitudes of employees in insecure jobs to the poor and the unemployed, their political tendencies, their opinions as regards the free market economy and, finally, their level of voter participation. Whereas the effect of professional insecurity on political tendencies has been the subject of little research works in France, the relation between unemployment and politics has been of more interest to researchers. The feeling of powerlessness vis-à-vis the future can also be linked to a lack of confidence in the institutions which regulate political life. The employees who risk losing their job point out those redundancies continue at a high rate whichever political party is in government.
