Regulating Transitions from School to Work
An Institutional Ethnography of Activation Work in Action
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do street-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing on the interactive accomplishment of activation work. The study reveals how the critical tensions of activation policies are continually re-interpreted and adapted to local contingencies and describes the various organisational technologies used for creating employable subjects.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
1. Introduction
Seiten 9 - 16 -
2. Youth, Education and the Welfare State
2.1 How Institutions Structure the Youth Phase
Seiten 17 - 27 -
2.2. Situating the Swiss Transition Regime
Seiten 27 - 39 -
2.3. The Politics of VET in Switzerland and the Emergence of Transition Measures
Seiten 39 - 53 -
2.4. Excursus: Collectivist Skill Formation Systems and the Right to Education
Seiten 53 - 67 -
2.5. From the Emergence of a Problem Towards the Construction of a Policy
Seiten 67 - 74 -
3. Life-Course, Biography and Social Policy
Einleitung
Seiten 75 - 79 -
3.1. The Life-Course as an Institutional Program and a Subjective Construction
Seiten 80 - 92 -
3.2. The Organizational Regulation of Biographies
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4. Analyzing Activation in Action
4.1. Street-level Bureaucrats, Institutionalized Organizations and People Processing Organizations
Seiten 113 - 152 -
5. Methodology, Research Design and Data Collection
5.1. A Focus on Activation Practices
Seiten 153 - 176 -
6. Results
6.1. A Short Introduction to Motivational Semesters
Seiten 177 - 191 -
6.2. Conflicts Between Orders of Worth and situated Compromises in Human Service Work: The Case of Sanctions
Seiten 191 - 208 -
6.3. Gate-keeping and the Negotiation of Employability: The Intermediary Function of Motivational Semesters
Seiten 208 - 225 -
6.4. Constructing the Client that Can Create Himself: Technologies of Agency and the Production of a Will
Seiten 225 - 239 -
6.5. "Making Up" Viable Future Selves Through Evaluation – Working with the Portfolio-Tool
Seiten 239 - 250 -
6.6. Guided Self-Exploration as a "Narrative Machinery" that Produces Intelligible Subjects
Seiten 251 - 254 -
7. General Conclusion and Discussion of Main Results
7.1. Organizations as the "Missing Link" for the Mediation Between Systemic Requirements and Subjectivity
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7.2. The institutional Production of Subjectivity: Biographisation – Valuation – Optimisation – Autonomisation
Seiten 260 - 276 -
8. Bibliography
Seiten 277 - 308 -
9. Annex
Seiten 309 - 312
4. Juni 2021, 312 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5706-7
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