Abstract: This article questions the reality of protective wage employment in Morocco, understood as the articulation between salaried employment and social protection characteristic of industrial societies of the Fordist type. The three scales of investigation used reveal a closed horizon of protective wage employment. The statistics indicate the low level of wage employment and the low rate of protection of the working population. The orientations of the public employment service now favour entrepreneurship and self-employment. As for the workers' narrative, they are permeated by the leitmotif of insufficient wages and the lack of prospects for development offered by the jobs held. The idea of the development of a wage society thus gives way to a very uncertain future, which is nevertheless called upon to meet the demands of productive globalisation.
