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Regulating Transitions from School to Work : an Institutional Ethnography of Activation Work in Action /

How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do grassroot-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. Stephan Dahmen explores the practical...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dahmen, Stephan, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Bielefeld University Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Youth, Education and the Welfare State
  • 2.1 How Institutions Structure the Youth Phase
  • 2.2. Situating the Swiss Transition Regime
  • 2.3. The Politics of VET in Switzerland and the Emergence of Transition Measures
  • 2.4. Excursus: Collectivist Skill Formation Systems and the Right to Education
  • 2.5. From the Emergence of a Problem Towards the Construction of a Policy
  • 3. Life-Course, Biography and Social Policy
  • Einleitung
  • 3.1. The Life-Course as an Institutional Program and a Subjective Construction
  • 3.2. The Organizational Regulation of Biographies
  • 4. Analyzing Activation in Action
  • 4.1. Street-level Bureaucrats, Institutionalized Organizations and People Processing Organizations
  • 5. Methodology, Research Design and Data Collection
  • 5.1. A Focus on Activation Practices
  • 6. Results
  • 6.1. A Short Introduction to Motivational Semesters
  • 6.2. Conflicts Between Orders of Worth and situated Compromises in Human Service Work: The Case of Sanctions
  • 6.3. Gate-keeping and the Negotiation of Employability: The Intermediary Function of Motivational Semesters
  • 6.4. Constructing the Client that Can Create Himself: Technologies of Agency and the Production of a Will
  • 6.5. "Making Up" Viable Future Selves Through Evaluation
  • Working with the Portfolio-Tool
  • 6.6. Guided Self-Exploration as a "Narrative Machinery" that Produces Intelligible Subjects
  • 7. General Conclusion and Discussion of Main Results
  • 7.1. Organizations as the "Missing Link" for the Mediation Between Systemic Requirements and Subjectivity
  • 7.2. The institutional Production of Subjectivity: Biographisation
  • Valuation
  • Optimisation
  • Autonomisation
  • 8. Bibliography
  • 9. Annex