Le travail-marchandise dans une économie en transition.. Le cas de la Bulgarie

Bulgaria, a candidate to join the European community in 2007, has known fundamental transformations since the fall of communism in 1989. The political changes and the structural reforms ? privatisation, establishment of a free enterprise economy...? have deeply disrupted society which, ever since, has known unemployment, fall in purchasing power, huge impoverishment and an increase of inequalities. Individualism is developing and the ostentatious wealth of the new rich is on the way up. The working population of the country now behaves differently in front of the jobs. Generally, their attitude depends on wages. The workers who, before 1989, considered that assiduity to work was a source of well-being, are fewer and fewer. Currently, all those workers put salary and job security in the first place.