Chapter Robert Castel. Lavoro, individualità e disaffiliazione sociale

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of Robert Castel’s discussion on labour, by focusing on his analysis of the social supports of individuality and social property. In exploring these notions and the history of the wage-earning society, the French sociologist sheds light on the genealogy of the social and political link between wage labour, social (dis)affiliation and individual identity. Far from adopting a workist approach, he argues in favor of the reshaping of social welfare and labour law in contemporary, neoliberal, societies.