Handlungsstrategien in einem prekarisierten Beschäftigungssegment. Eine exemplarische Untersuchung der Medizinischen Fachangestellten / Strategies of action in an occupational field that tends to become precarious. An exemplary analysis of doctors’ assistants and their working conditions

Precarious employment is seen as a new „constellation of the Social“ that even effect skilled employees like for example doctors’ assistants. In this occupational field we therefore analyse “objective” elements of precarious working conditions, subjective perceptions and the resulting actions of individuals. Research results indicate that employees in these labour markets hardly perceive flexible forms of employment as an increased risk of precarity. Only low pay is regarded as a problem. Individual strategies of action are dominated by exit-options, put into practice as change of employer or exit from the occupational field. Forms of collective action, named as ‘voice’, are hardly used. One has to cope individually with precarious forms of employment without demanding structural improvements of working conditions.