Neoliberalisation, the social investment state and social work

Marthinsen, Edgar

doi:10.1080/13691457.2018.1538102

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“…A systemic explanation for the contemporary state of human services would point to the dynamics of neoliberalism within which contingency work has become central (Abramovitz & Zelnick, 2015;Brodkin, 2013;Marthinsen, 2019;Miller & Hokensted, 2014;Weil, 2014;Zullo, 2008). Indeed, the primary agency rationale for hiring contingent workers is because the sector is not funded sufficiently to pay its workers appropriate compensation.…”

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“…In contrast, the public sector has been delegitimated and subjected to austerity policies that have essentially starved its institutions. Critics assert that in the nearly 50 years of neoliberal approaches, there has been significant growth in wage and wealth inequalities, erosion of social investment, rapid cycling of economic crises such as the 2008 recession, and resurgent right-wing populist movements (Brown, 2019(Brown, , 2015Marthinsen, 2019).…”

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The Costs, Benefits and Challenges of Contingency Work in Human Service Agencies

Hyde

2020

Journal of Health and Human Services Administration

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Increasingly, professionally trained human service workers are employed on a contingency basis. This article reports findings from an exploratory qualitative study in which contingent direct service staff and permanent agency administrators were interviewed to ascertain their views on contingency work arrangements in the human services. Two broad research questions guided this inquiry: (1) what are the rationales for contingency employment from the perspectives of the staff who obtain it and the agencies that utilize it; and (2) what are the effects of contingency employment on the contingent workers and the agency? Findings are placed in the broader context of neoliberalism and its impact on the human service sector with focus on the fiscal factors that drive contingency arrangements and the fragmenting of human service work environments as a result.

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The Costs, Benefits and Challenges of Contingency Work in Human Service Agencies

Hyde

2020

Journal of Health and Human Services Administration

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“…Neoliberal ideas and values are undoubtedly a challenge to the values of social work itself (Marthinsen, 2019) and of the actual social services and point to the need to reinvent social services in line with the reality of the challenges being faced.…”

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Considerations on the Democratic Challenge from the Perspective of Social Services: Community, Participation and (In)equality

Herran

Bergantiños

2022

Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?

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This chapter offers a view on the need to find a more democratic approach to the social services system. We start from the premise that the current social services system encounters serious difficulties when trying to respond to, and transform, the different problems facing a social reality greatly impacted by injustice and social inequality. The commitment to greater democracy is therefore inevitable from the point of view of what was supposed to be one of the fundamental pillars of the welfare system. A review of some documents and access to some survey data afford an opportunity to discuss what we have called "greater community"/"intensified community", understood as a strategy allowing social services to develop a model based on participation and community perspective as preferential lines of intervention. The defence of this intensified community allows us to recognize the importance of working with the community towards the construction of active citizenship, this being understood as a fundamental condition for developing democracy. Following an overview of the main postulates supporting this interpretation, a brief summary of the reality of the Basque social services system is provided with the aim to outline the scope of greater community proposed herein.

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Enabling and Preserving Situational Social Work in Barnahus: A Vulnerable Jurisdiction Caught in the Crossfire Between Juridification and Psychologisation

Andersen

2024

Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology

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This chapter examines the situational social work practice of “interstitial work” that is observable within the Norwegian Barnahus model. Interstitial work provides children and families with interventions that are customised to their particular situations and needs. This chapter examines which structural conditions have enabled this practice to emerge, what factors could threaten the practice’s future existence, and how the practice may be sustained over time. Based on interview data with ten Barnahus staff members and a leader, this chapter notes that a high degree of professional autonomy through an absence of detailed regulation may be crucial in the formative years of situational practices. Once a situational practice is established, however, increased but not overly detailed regulation seems necessary for the practice’s preservation over time.

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Neoliberalisation, the social investment state and social work

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

The Costs, Benefits and Challenges of Contingency Work in Human Service Agencies

The Costs, Benefits and Challenges of Contingency Work in Human Service Agencies

Considerations on the Democratic Challenge from the Perspective of Social Services: Community, Participation and (In)equality

Enabling and Preserving Situational Social Work in Barnahus: A Vulnerable Jurisdiction Caught in the Crossfire Between Juridification and Psychologisation

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