A study of key phases in apprenticeship (such as the choice of a trade, the learning of occupational know-how or the opportunities open during and after apprenticeship) and a comparison between young people with different types of schooling (in five "trades" in Bamako, Mali) serve as the basis for analyzing how what is learned at school relates to apprenticeship. The knowledge gleaned in school is a cultural capital helping these young people to advance faster and farther in apprenticeship, a social capital making them less dependent on family networks and, above all, a symbolic capital authorizing them to imagine setting up business or benefiting from further training. It thus serves as a selection process that is all the more insidious in that actors in this system never present it as such.
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