Civil servants and contract employees up the professional and social ladder: account managers and changing patterns of mobility in the French Post office[Fonctionnaires et contractuels en ascension : les conseillers financiers et les recompositions de la mobilité à La Poste]

Over the years, the French Post office has been considered as a place for social promotion. This old state administration has always allowed the access of lower classes to civil servants' jobs. But new organizational transformations such as the recruitment of contract employees has destabilized the status of employment. Studying the account managers as an occupational group is a good way to discover how these changes have been implemented. As we examine the process of internal promotion for both civil servants and contract employees, we can observe fundamental changes not only in terms of organization but also evolutions due to each account manager's social and professional trajectory.