Full Description
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, people who had never before had cause to worry about losing their jobs entered the ranks of the unemployed for the first time. In Sweden, the welfare state has been radically challenged and mass unemployment has become a reality in what used to be viewed as a model case for a full employment society.With an emphasis on Sweden in the context of transnational regulatory change, Makeshift Work in a Changing Labour Market discusses how the market mediates employment and moves on to explore the ways in which employees adjust to a new labor market. Focusing on the legibility, measurability and responsibility of jobseekers, the expert contributors to this book bring together an analysis of activation policy and new ways of organizing the mediation of work, with implications for the individual jobseeker.
Students and researchers of labor market policy, the organization of markets and work and society both in Sweden and abroad will find this book to be of interest. Policy makers will find the empirical examples of policy processes among employees an extremely useful and insightful tool.
Contents
Contents:
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Makeshift Work in a Global Labour Market
Christina Garsten, Jessica Lindvert And Renita Thedvall
PART I: A MARKET TO MEDIATE EMPLOYMENT TAKES SHAPE
2. A Policy for the New Job Market
Jessica Lindvert
3. The Dual Role of the Public Employment Service: To Support and Control
Lars Walter
4. Public Employment Officers as Agents and Therapists
Julia Peralta
5. A Labour Market of Opportunities? Specialists Assess Work Ability and Disability
Ida Seing
6. Temporary Staffing - Balancing Cooperation and Competition
Gunilla Olofsdotter
7. Transition Programmes - A Disciplining Practice
Ilinca Benson
PART II: PEOPLE IN THE NEW LABOUR MARKET
8. Market-Oriented Relationships in Working Life - On the Perception of Being Employable
Erik Berntson
9. Home Help Work: Balancing Loyalties
Marie Hjalmarsson
10. In The Name of Evidence-Based Practice. Managing Social Workers Through Science, Standards and Transparency
Renita Thedvall
11. Skills Development - An Empty Offer?
Matilda Ardenfors and Jessica Lindvert
12. The Labour Market as a Market - Exchangeability, Measurability and Accountability
Christina Garsten
Index
