Formes particulières d'emploi et gestion d'une main-d'œuvre féminine peu qualifiée : le cas des caissières d'un hypermarché

Abstract

Paul Bouffartigue and Jean-René Pendariès Special Forms of Employment and the Management of Semiskilled Women Workers. The analysis of how women cashiers are managed in a superstore sheds new light on this particular form of employment. The «cash register area» is not merely a «peripheral» segment in the distribution process. On the contrary, in an employment system based on personnel rotation, the employer is forced to set up an «internal market» to stabilize employees and normalize working conditions. Special attention is paid to the procedures, transactions and compromises whereby such an internal secondary segment can be created in employment.