Stätten der späten Moderne

Legnaro, Aldo; Birenheide, Almut

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“…The necessary steps toward that goal are specified in an ‘integration schedule’ (Weise et al, 2009: 127), in which the diagnosed shortcomings are addressed by assignment to one or more of the schemes the agency’s ‘toolbox’ has on offer (cf. Darmon and Perez, 2011: 85–86; Legnaro and Birenheide, 2008: 79).…”

Section: The Logic Of Dividualisation In German Labour Market Reformsmentioning

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“…On the face of it, signing it is voluntary. However, since declining to do so (or subsequently infringing it) entails the loss of all claims to public assistance, this voluntariness is usually purely fictional (Legnaro and Birenheide, 2008: 60–61; Ludwig-Mayerhofer et al, 2009: 23–24). Such compulsion-backed personalised responsibilisation subjects the client to the ‘domination of the social point of view’ (Simmel, cited by Lessenich, 2008: 93), which she can only live up to by adopting the view of herself as composed of different ‘competences’ that underlies the goals defined in the agreement.…”

Section: The Logic Of Dividualisation In German Labour Market Reformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond individualisation: The German ‘activation toolbox’

Eversberg

2015

Critical Social Policy

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This article discusses recent debates on ‘activating’ labour market policies in light of German reforms since 2003. Beckian and Giddensian theories of modernity, political economy, and the governmentality school all argue within a common paradigm of individualisation, assuming the ‘responsibilised’ and isolated individual to be the focal point of activation policies. This paradigm is questioned, as the exclusive focus on the individual obscures something else, namely that ‘activation’ policies can also be seen as contributing to a dynamic of dividualisation, i.e. of making the subject of labour power fundamentally divisible. It is demonstrated that in the recent German reforms, dividualisation provides an organising logic pervading the instruments of activating labour market policies and the ways in which they are articulated in a policy programme. It is concluded that dividualisation, particularly evident in the German case, may provide a useful frame for analysing labour market reforms in other advanced capitalist economies.

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Section: The Logic Of Dividualisation In German Labour Market Reformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Logic Of Dividualisation In German Labour Market Reformsmentioning

confidence: 99%