The contemporary debate about the incorporation of the professionals in the labor market is being based on a new way of seeing the attitudes of individuals in relation to work, that of employability.. Although present discussions about the conditions of workers entering the labor market are based in this construct, employability is a controversial and unclear term, and it used in varying ways by the participants in the debate about the behaviors that are required of workers vis-à-vis the changing labor market. This controversial and unfinished discourse about the employability is the motive for this work which aims to critically examine this theoretical construction. The analysis is based on concepts presented by Foucault in some of his classic texts, especially in Discipline and Punishment, leading the authors to a critical reflection that addresses the underlying dimensions of employability as something that perpetuates submission of workers to the dynamics of the productive system rather than guarantees individual autonomy.
Employability; Subjectivity; Control; Power; Discipline