Activating the ‘ideal jobseeker’: Experiences of individuals with mental health conditions on the UK Work Programme
| Autor: | Frederike Scholz, Jo Ingold |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Scholz, Frederike/0000-0003-0858-1172 |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Labour economics
Inequality Inclusion (disability rights) Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Qualitative property Social model of disability Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Sociology Legitimacy media_common mental health conditions (MHCs) 05 social sciences General Social Sciences inequality regime active labour market programmes (ALMPs) Mental health Social relation 0506 political science disability ideal jobseeker 050203 business & management Work Programme |
| Zdroj: | Human Relations. 74:1604-1627 |
| ISSN: | 1741-282X 0018-7267 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0018726720934848 |
| Popis: | Active labour market programmes (ALMPs) are critical preparation mechanisms to assist people to enter the workplace. This article analyses qualitative data from a hard-to-access group of individuals with mental health conditions (MHCs) participating in a large-scale UK ALMP, the Work Programme (WP). Using the lens of the 'extended social model of disability' and the concept of the 'ideal worker', the article demonstrates that ableist norms of the 'ideal jobseeker' were embedded within the Programme's design, prioritising individuals with certain abilities and behaviour over others. Second, the article extends Acker's framework of inequality regimes to demonstrate that formal and informal inequality practices within the Programme maintained, rather than challenged, disability inequality. This was visible along four dimensions: (1) ALMPs as organising processes producing disability inequality; (2) the visibility of disability inequality; (3) the legitimacy of disability inequality; and (4) control and compliance derived from hierarchical social relations within ALMP design and implementation, involving either stabilising or destabilising effects on disabled jobseekers. The theoretical and practical contributions of this article demonstrate that the design of the WP as an employment preparation mechanism pushed disabled jobseekers further away from paid employment, rather than towards workplace inclusion. The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: this research was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council via a Leeds Social Science Institute Postgraduate Research Placement Grant. Scholz, F (corresponding author), Hasselt Univ, Fac Business Econ, SEIN, Campus Diepenbeek,Agoralaan Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. Frederike.scholz@uhasselt.be; j.ingold@leeds.ac.uk |
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