Resumen de La renta mínima de inserción y la lucha contra la pobreza en catalunya. Sociología de una reforma de los modelos de protección social
This thesis studies the genesis and the implementation of income support (RMI) in Catalonia as a measure against poverty. Based on archives and interviews, the research first focuses on the years 1975-1990, during which reformers define poverty as a social problem. The arrangement of their various interests, related to their trajectories and social locations, lead them to set up income support as a solution to this problem. The problem of poverty emerges and takes shape as officials with connections to Catholic networks need to reposition themselves in their social and occupational lives within the new institutional context of parliamentary democracy from the end of the 1970s. The genesis of income support as a solution is related to two aspects of these agents' situations: some of them belonged to the parties in power throughout the 1980s on the one hand; they accepted the constraints of the political and administrative apparatus to which they belonged on the other hand. The thesis subsequently uses an ethnographic study based on observations and interviews to analyse the practical implementation of income support through the way social workers understand and enforce the policy, and especially the way they decide to allocate or not the benefit. The analysis of these processes shows how the implementation of income support is related to social workers' occupational logics. It also depends on the bureaucratic constraints related to these social services and on the practical and bureaucratic constraints related to income support itself.
