Abstract
The perception of job insecurity in a state administration, the Post Office, from 1946 to 1980, should help realize the nature of link between work organizations and the employment status of postal workers. Traditionally, this period of strong economic growth is regarded as a period marked by the predominance of a Fordist employment standard that would have dominated the wage, stable employment involving a number of social rights. But the Post, the conditions of productive activity of postal sorting, seasonal in nature, have imposed a greater flexibility than allowed civil servant status. This resulted in the implementation of a dual labor market in sorting centers consisting of a core and a periphery, characterized by the co-existence of owners and auxiliary. This provision led managers of the Post Office to be satisfied with a form of job insecurity for a fraction of employees. The uncertainty in the Post believed to be temporary and cyclical, continued to grow until the strike of autumn 1974 and beyond.
