Sistema público y estrategias familiares de protección social por desempleo. Una mirada desde la precariedad laboral

Abstract

The article approaches the social perception of the unemployment protection system. It deals with both, the institutional facet and the informal angle, that is to say, the assistance generated from the Administration and from the familiar structures. Considering low rates of unemployment but high precariousness, the research aims at a generalized acceptance of the existing model, defined as weak in its institutional support and solid in its private facet. It prevails a majority opinion for a charity model of protection, which distrusts on universal principles in favour of measures directed towards subjects with specific needs. However, the use of qualitative research techniques, that accompany the quantitative ones, has allowed to question the moral connotations of the neoliberal speech, and to value the use of the survival strategies carried out by the precarious groups.