Résumé (EN)

An examination of the job and unemployment programs of the OECD and the European Commission in the two decades since 1990 shows that their circuit of production and homologous legitimation has been marked by the domination of governments and these organizations’ economic sectors over social sectors. Each of these institutional universes is characterized by an asymmetric relationship between the “economic” and the “social”, something that affects the content of their diagnostics and prescriptions as well as the flow of transactions between them. This article thus takes seriously the effects and actualizations of the process of isomorphic differentiation between the “economic” and the “social” that has over the long term been pursued by Western states, a process that affects the very structures of these internationalized spaces.