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 street-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 re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Universität Bielefeld funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Dahmen, Stephan, 1982- author (author)
Formato: Tesis
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript 2021
[2021]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:BiUP general.
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  • Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 1. Introduction 9 2.1 How Institutions Structure the Youth Phase 17 2.2. Situating the Swiss Transition Regime 27 2.3. The Politics of VET in Switzerland and the Emergence of Transition Measures 39 2.4. Excursus: Collectivist Skill Formation Systems and the Right to Education 53 2.5. From the Emergence of a Problem Towards the Construction of a Policy 67 Einleitung 75 3.1. The Life-Course as an Institutional Program and a Subjective Construction 80 3.2. The Organizational Regulation of Biographies 93 4.1. Street-level Bureaucrats, Institutionalized Organizations and People Processing Organizations 113 5.1. A Focus on Activation Practices 153 6.1. A Short Introduction to Motivational Semesters 177 6.2. Conflicts Between Orders of Worth and situated Compromises in Human Service Work: The Case of Sanctions 191 6.3. Gate-keeping and the Negotiation of Employability: The Intermediary Function of Motivational Semesters 208 6.4. Constructing the Client that Can Create Himself: Technologies of Agency and the Production of a Will 225 6.5. "Making Up" Viable Future Selves Through Evaluation - Working with the Portfolio-Tool 239 6.6. Guided Self-Exploration as a "Narrative Machinery" that Produces Intelligible Subjects 251 7.1. Organizations as the "Missing Link" for the Mediation Between Systemic Requirements and Subjectivity 255 7.2. The institutional Production of Subjectivity: Biographisation - Valuation - Optimisation - Autonomisation 260 8. Bibliography 277 9. Annex 309