Promoting Capability for Work: The Role of Local Actors

Moral judgements and employment policies in Birmingham (1870‐1914): multiplying the categories and treatments of the “undeserving”

“…Birmingham between 1870 and 1914 was uneven in its promotion of capabilities for people to achieve their goals in work and in life, and it hindered many people's capabilities for voice (Bonvin et al, 2006). In particular, the Corporation discriminated against the poorest working classes through moral judgements and punitive treatments of the 'undeserving'.…”

“…Bonvin et al, 2006, Salais, 2004, Sen, 1993. The Victorian notion of 'self-help' played a large role in shaping the Liberal approach to people's 'capabilities' in work and life: people should be given the means to develop themselves through the provision of public services such as an adequate power supply, an efficient public transport system, access to clean water, and access to education.…”

Addressing Mismatch in Spain: A Concern and Proposal Beyond the Economic Sphere

“…This conception of research based on democratic principles and on the basis of an equal space of capabilities for individuals, requires since the start that the problem of mismatch is discussed in a reflexive relationship between public policies and stakeholders. Within the CA, voice and the capability to exercise it (Bonvin 2006) is central in the developing of methodologies. The widening of the IBJJ implies two main things.…”

“…Using, Bonvin (2006), together with Galster (2010), focus on labour policies from a human development perspective, the conclusion is that a greater IBJJ in which dialogue to promote the awareness and involvement of businesses (most notably small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)), practitioners and even students in forecasting future skills is needed to reconceptualise the role of VET to be played in relation to students' transitions and life-plans as well as to reflect the need to protect individuals from the labour market itself. The broadening of the discussion and contribution to the discourses that shape policy using a human development perspective is a preliminary step in that direction.…”

Collaborative Governance : A new era of public policy in Australia?

“…It cannot be developed here (see Bonvin and Farvaque 2006), but the Sen framework also suggests the kind of capacities that will be needed in the third sector if it is to make its distinctive contribution to the new collaborative models. Under the industry model, third-sector agencies have tended to become suppliers of centrally packaged services to passive consumers.…”