Norwegian Welfare Reforms: Social Contracts and Activation Policies

Kildal, Nanna; Nilssen, Even

doi:10.1057/9780230307636_11

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“…The narrative demonstrates the mutual recognition by which the participant and the social worker co-construct the participant's identity as a willing, capable and skilled person who has progressed in the activation process. This participant's identity construction supports activation policy discourses that promote the idea that service users who are willing to change their behaviour can overcome barriers to paid employment (Kildal & Nilssen, 2011), if they receive the right support. This view seems to adhere to Fraser's (1989) idea of the feminised client role: one who needs and accepts help and is willing to change.…”

Section: Swmentioning

confidence: 62%

Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

Hansen

2017

Int J Soc Welfare

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Few studies have considered how labour activation programmes affect participants’ identity construction, particularly from a gender comparison perspective. Using qualitative data and recognition theories, this exploratory study of the Norwegian Qualification Program examined how gender may affect labour activation recipients’ identity construction and sense of social value. The findings suggest that women experience labour activation as an enabling process, facilitating an enhanced sense of social value and status. In contrast, men experience either no such change or a diminution of their sense of worth and status. The study shows how cultural values regarding gender, work and employment are embedded in social work practice and activation policy implementation. Underscoring how activation may be intertwined in such cultural values and norms, the study calls for further research to understand these processes, as they may affect outcomes in labour activation policy.

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Section: Swmentioning

confidence: 62%

Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

Hansen

2017

Int J Soc Welfare

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“…Even when narrowed down, using the Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse, the search still yielded 1907 hits. Clearly, contemporary welfare states embrace the concept of self-sufficiency as a viable option toward social citizenship (Betzelt, Bothfeld, & Béraud, 2011;Fleckenstein, 2012;Kildal & Nilssen, 2011). For all the talk about self-sufficiency, however, this term is not explicitly defined either by the government or by scholars.…”

Section: Toward Self-sufficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Concurrent Participation in Federally-Funded Welfare Programs and Empowerment Toward Economic Self-Sufficiency

Joseph

Potocky

Girard

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Journal of Social Service Research

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“…The assessment is a structured, computer-assisted method for assessing all working-age sick and disabled people and deciding whether, and to what extent, a person has impaired working capability-in other words, a joint assessment method of their employability. The assessment can be regarded as an instrumental policy mechanism developed not just for the applicants and beneficiaries, but also for ensuring that frontline workers emphasize work and activation in their evaluation of the employability of long-term sick and disabled claimants (Heum 2010;Kildal and Nilssen 2011).…”

Section: The Norwegian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%