dc.contributor.author | Garsten, Christina | |
dc.contributor.author | Jacobsson, Kerstin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-30T10:46:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-30T10:46:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2052-1499 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1473-2866 (Online) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2447468 | |
dc.description.abstract | The ‘employable individual’ is today a powerful normative category, saturated with
assumptions about what it takes to be attractive in the labour market. What happens to
people who cannot meet those expectations? For some, the way to employability and
employment goes through a process of detecting and coding of disability at the Public
Employment Service (PES). Based on interviews with staff at a rehabilitation unit in the
Swedish Public Employment Service, the article analyses processes of evaluating work
capacity for marginally employable people as part of the Employability Rehabilitation
Programme. By studying the classification procedures, the article analyses how
administrative categories work as ‘technologies of government’ that ‘make legible’
desirable traits in the individual. The analysis shows that employability is mediated, or
enabled, by classificatory procedures that spring out of a template for what is considered
acceptable and desirable individual characteristics, hence reinforcing standards of
normalcy. Moreover, the categories through which the individual moves are plastic and
pliable in relation to political predicates and labour market fluctuations. In this process,
to be non-employable becomes a disability and conversely, to be disabled can make one
employable. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | University of Leicester, University of Essex | nb_NO |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
dc.title | Sorting people in and out: The plasticity of the categories of employability, work capacity and disability as technologies of government | nb_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | nb_NO |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 825-850 | nb_NO |
dc.source.volume | 13 | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | Ephemera : Theory and Politics in Organization | nb_NO |
dc.source.issue | 4 | nb_NO |
dc.relation.project | NFR 220756 | nb_NO |
dc.description.localcode | (c) the author(s) 2013, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) | nb_NO |