<i>Insertion</i> as an alternative to workfare: Active labour-market schemes in the Parisian suburbs

Schulte, Lisa A.; Greer, Ian; Umney, Charles; Symon, Graham; Iankova, Katia

doi:10.1177/0958928717739237

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“…So, what might be an alternative approach? To cite just one possible example, greater voice and choice could be guided by local initiatives like the resistance of French ‘insertion’ schemes to adopt workfare-derived principles by street-level officers (Schulte et al, 2017). However, the research presented here found nothing to dispel Greer’s re-commodification of labour argument and, ultimately, what is identified in this Danish study are – from a CA perspective – failings in ALMPs.…”

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No Voice, No Choice: Assessing Danish Active Labour Market Policies Using Sen’s Capability Approach

Fernandez-Urbano

Orton

2020

Work, Employment and Society

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Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) are the subject of ongoing interest, which has included the framing of ALMPs as the re-commodification of labour. It has also been argued that Sen’s Capability Approach (CA) offers the potential to reconsider ALMPs from a more progressive viewpoint – so, is this the case and to what extent is, or can, the CA be a helpful research and analytical tool with which to study ALMPs? These questions are addressed through a reflexive examination of a study of Danish ALMPs, which utilized the CA and key themes of capabilities promotion, voice and choice. The CA influenced all aspects of the research design, methods and analysis. It is argued that the CA is a helpful methodology in bringing a new perspective to studying ALMPs. Additionally, the study raised concerns about the trajectory of the Danish ALMPs studied and possible alternatives to current approaches.

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No Voice, No Choice: Assessing Danish Active Labour Market Policies Using Sen’s Capability Approach

Fernandez-Urbano

Orton

2020

Work, Employment and Society

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“…The role of local and decentral policymaking authority was also illustrated in a study of French “insertion” schemes aimed at vulnerable people. The study showed how local actors were able to resist pressures by central government to introduce principles based on workfare and welfare conditionality, pointing at limitations of central government's power in regulating and steering local practices (Schulte, Greer, Umney, Symon, & Iankova, ).…”

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Making welfare conditional: A street‐level perspective

Berkel

2019

Soc Policy Adm

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This article looks at how welfare conditionality is delivered at the street level. It argues that the street‐level delivery of welfare conditionality is structured by policies, the governance context in which workers deliver welfare conditionality, the organization in which they work, and the occupation they are part of. Characteristics of these contexts present street‐level workers with a variety of signals and incentives that direct their decision making. The article elaborates on this proposition on the basis of a review of academic studies analysing the street‐level delivery of various aspects of welfare conditionality: the use of sanctions, service personalization, and the treatment of vulnerable clients. The review shows that context characteristics together have a significant impact on the street‐level transformation of welfare conditionality policies into practices. Street‐level decision making concerning the use of sanctions is far more complex than can be captured by a perspective on street‐level workers as merely policy implementers. Sanctioning practices are sometimes harsher, sometimes more lenient than policies lead us to expect. The “soft” side of welfare conditionality—represented by service personalization—is often under pressure at the street level, potentially strengthening welfare conditionality's tough side. This affects vulnerable jobseekers most: Street‐level studies show that the balance between disciplining and enabling aspects of welfare‐to‐work is most at risk for more vulnerable groups. The article concludes that the contextual pressures street‐level workers have to deal with in their daily work hardly reflect the “delicate equilibrium” that they need to deliver welfare conditionality in a professional, responsive, and responsible way.

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“…What can extant research on project-based organization tell us about precariousness in cultural work? Importantly, recent comparative research in social services (Greer et al, 2019;Schulte et al, 2018) indicates the problems with viewing the projectariat as inevitably and inherently precarious. Instead, they show the wide variability of the insecurity of project-based work.…”

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Creative placemaking and the cultural projectariat: Artistic work in the wake of Hull City of Culture 2017

Umney

Symon

2019

Capital & Class

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Cultural work attracts much sociological interest and is often seen as typifying ‘precarity’. However, this scholarship rarely examines how ‘placemaking’ policy interventions affect the concrete conditions of cultural work. We study a major recent public/private policy intervention in the United Kingdom: Hull City of Culture 2017. This intervention embodied a multifaceted set of policy logics, combining the desire to boost arts participation, with a market-facing imperative to bolster the city’s ‘brand’. We examine what happened to the city’s ‘cultural projectariat’ (meaning those workers whose career depends on assembling sequences of discrete, time-limited funded cultural projects) during this event. The influx of funds created opportunities for good-quality work, but specific sources of insecurity persisted and in certain respects intensified: including the need for significant unpaid work and permanent competition for resources. City of Culture’s nature as a market-oriented ‘placemaking’ intervention limits its capacity to ameliorate the conditions of cultural work, which has to be conceived as a policy end in itself if conditions of the cultural projectariat are to be improved.

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Insertion as an alternative to workfare: Active labour-market schemes in the Parisian suburbs

Cited by 12 publications

References 44 publications

No Voice, No Choice: Assessing Danish Active Labour Market Policies Using Sen’s Capability Approach

No Voice, No Choice: Assessing Danish Active Labour Market Policies Using Sen’s Capability Approach

Making welfare conditional: A street‐level perspective

Creative placemaking and the cultural projectariat: Artistic work in the wake of Hull City of Culture 2017

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