The aim of the article is to present the research project and its main results. The subject of interest is an in-depth and critical qualitative analysis of the practical operation of Job Centre’s activation assistance field, which is one of the key areas (fields) for implementation of the so-called active social policy (ASP), which can be also named as policy of activation. The article presents a critical standpoint towards this policy. The theoretical framework of the analysis is the theory of field by Pierre Bourdieu, the purpose of research is to reveal the practical logics of assistance actions, carried out under the banner of massive work activation. It comes to the conclusion that these practices are primarily driven by increasing tensions between the world of capital and the world of labour. The author presents these connections and relationships — reveals hidden structures generating current activating assistance practice and defining the logics of its functioning. The article also briefly presents the research methodology. Presented research analysis results were carried out as a consequence of application of methods: (auto)ethnography, discourse analysis and interview.