Intermittency, the new norm of the labor market?

Summary While the development of fixed-term or part-time employment has been one of the major changes in the labor market in recent decades, making intermittent employment the norm in the labor market is problematic. Indeed, this is to forget that the labor market in France is organized around the full-time permanent contract. Discourses calling for the advent of liberated work fail to take into account the fact that special forms of employment are mainly found in the dominated parts of the labor market. Finally, this article describes the salient features of the intermittent entertainment market, which is regularly taken as a model for recent developments.