Anja Eleveld
Biographic Data
| ID | 4396575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anja Eleveld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anja |
| FAMILY NAME | Eleveld |
| SIGNATURE | ELEVELD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7797-2372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fragmented solidarity
Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in the Netherlands, this article examines how solidarity is shaped in the hospitality sector, in which solo self-employed platform workers and employees work side by side. Our findings show that divergent identities and interests, reinforced by legal frameworks, may undermine solidarity both among self-employed platform workers and between them and regular employees, while also weakening trade union effort…
Re-Interpreting Basic Values Underlying Social Security Law In Times of Climate Change and Ecological Crisis
Shaping solidarity, guaranteeing basic subsistence, maintaining income and employment activation can be seen as basic values underlying social security law in many European welfare states. This article argues that the meaning of these values or concepts is determined by legitimating discourses within which they are interpreted. While so far Rawls's theory of justice and related egalitarian liberal philosophies have had a great impact on these dis…
Can mandatory work in activation programmes be meaningful work
Quantitative well-being studies have shown that welfare recipients performing work activities in activation programmes report relatively high levels of well-being. This article asks how these findings can be explained, given welfare recipients’ constrained autonomy. To answer this question a qualitative study was conducted in the Netherlands to explore the interaction between welfare recipients’ constrained autonomy and how they experience work i…
Inclusive Advocacy? Trade-Union Activity in Support of the Rights of Domestic Workers in Continental Europe
Cet article compare l'activité syndicale en faveur des droits des travailleuses 1 domestiques aux Pays-Bas, en Allemagne et en France. Même si le nombre de travailleuses domestiques syndiquées y est très faible, les syndicats ont développé des actions pour défendre les droits de ces travailleuses dans ces trois pays. Toutefois, ces actions n'ont été que partielles et n'ont pas pris en compte de manière exhaustive les besoins et les droits de tout…
Disrespect or dignity? Experiences of mandatory work participants in the Netherlands from the perspective of the right to work
This article explores the extent to which mandatory work programmes (MWPs) which oblige social assistance recipients to perform work activities in order to improve or develop basic work skills, can be considered in conformity with the human right to work. Drawing on qualitative research in three municipalities in the Netherlands, the findings indicate that overall, the work in the MWPs infringed the right to work. However, part of the MWP partici…
Protecting working welfare recipients through human rights experimentalism
In this paper, we adopt an experimentalist approach to determining the content of international human rights for assessing national mandatory work programmes for recipients of social assistance (MWPs). This approach implies going back and forth between law and experience in order to determine the better way to secure human rights in an ever-changing environment. After having identified six criteria for evaluating MWPs in the soft case-law of inte…
Inclusive advocacy? Trade-union activity in support of the rights of domestic workers in Continental Europe
Applying Neo-Republican Theory to Welfare to Work Practices
Drawing on the neo-republican theory of non-domination and a qualitative case study conducted in three Dutch municipalities, this article explores the extent to which external rules are able to prevent arbitrary power in relationships between welfare officers and work supervisors, on the one hand, and welfare recipients participating in mandatory work programmes, on the other hand. It concludes that external rules were insufficiently implemented …
Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare States
With welfare to work programmes under intense scrutiny, this book reviews a wide range of existing and future policies across Europe. Seventeen contributors provide case studies and legal, sociological and philosophical perspectives from around the continent, building a rich picture of welfare to work policies and their impact. They show how many schemes do not adequately address social rights and lived experiences, and consider alternatives base…
Welfare to work and the republican theory of non-domination
Activation policies
The Governmentalization of the Trade Union and the Potential of Union-Based Resistance. The Case of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands Making Rights Claims
Ambivalence about rights is well known: rights may both challenge existing injustices while simultaneously re-enforcing sovereign regulatory control over citizens. In this article, we focus on the paradox that potentially radical and transformative claims to rights are made at a site - civil society - that under liberal governmentality has increasingly become a site of government. By exploring the unionization of undocumented migrant domestic wor…
Work-Related Sanctions in European Welfare States
The Politics of Work–family Policies
The Role of Ideas in Policy and Institutional Change
Most scholars engaged in ideational analysis agree that the availability of new ideas may cause existing welfare state policies and institutions to alter. This article considers the extent to which the open functional approach and constructivist approaches are able to explain the role of ideas in policy and institutional change. Notwithstanding their contribution to the study of the role of ideas in policy and institutional change, these approach…
Work, Care, and Gender
This article analyzes how Dutch policies on women’s emancipation were reframed between the years 2000 and 2007. It considers, in particular, the role of statistical data in the reframing process. Drawing on the framing literature in post-positivist analysis and on studies in governmentality, the article shows how statistical data in policy documents can be conceived of both as interpretive products of situated subjects and as knowledge producers …
The Duty to Work without a Wage
Since the rise of the activation paradigm in the 1990s, the duty to work without a wage has become widespread in European social assistance legislation. This paper investigates in a precise way the extent to which the duty to work without a wage follows the legal logic of a contractual relationship and how this duty is related to the fundamental right to an adequate standard of living. A comparison between German, Dutch and British social assista…
Claiming Care Rights as a Performative Act
Discourse Theory on Ideas and Policy Reform
How do new policy ideas enter the dominant policy discourse, and how do they change discourses and policy practices? Most ideational analyses of change are agency-centered, that is, they see change as resulting from people's choices as shaped by their (intersubjective) ideas. In contrast, this article draws on poststructuralist discourse theory, which does not assume the existence of real intransitive agents and structures with causal powers but,…
The role of rhetoric and affect in policy changes
Using methods that are developed in discourse historical analysis, this case study on Dutch life course policy suggests that analysis of (the interrelationship between) rhetoric and affect can contribute to a poststructuralist explanation of policy change. It is argued that the catachretic act of naming this policy ‘life course policy’ produced new spaces of representation within which (partly) incompatible goals and values were united. Actors id…
The Role of Ideas in Policy and Institutional Change
Most scholars engaged in ideational analysis agree that the availability of new ideas may cause existing welfare state policies and institutions to alter. This article considers the extent to which the open functional approach and constructivist approaches are able to explain the role of ideas in policy and institutional change. Notwithstanding their contribution to the study of the role of ideas in policy and institutional change, these approach…
The Governmentalization of the Trade Union and the Potential of Union-Based Resistance. The Case of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands Making Rights Claims
Ambivalence about rights is well known: rights may both challenge existing injustices while simultaneously re-enforcing sovereign regulatory control over citizens. In this article, we focus on the paradox that potentially radical and transformative claims to rights are made at a site - civil society - that under liberal governmentality has increasingly become a site of government. By exploring the unionization of undocumented migrant domestic wor…
The Duty to Work without a Wage
Since the rise of the activation paradigm in the 1990s, the duty to work without a wage has become widespread in European social assistance legislation. This paper investigates in a precise way the extent to which the duty to work without a wage follows the legal logic of a contractual relationship and how this duty is related to the fundamental right to an adequate standard of living. A comparison between German, Dutch and British social assista…
Claiming Care Rights as a Performative Act
The role of rhetoric and affect in policy changes
Using methods that are developed in discourse historical analysis, this case study on Dutch life course policy suggests that analysis of (the interrelationship between) rhetoric and affect can contribute to a poststructuralist explanation of policy change. It is argued that the catachretic act of naming this policy ‘life course policy’ produced new spaces of representation within which (partly) incompatible goals and values were united. Actors id…
Inclusive Advocacy? Trade-Union Activity in Support of the Rights of Domestic Workers in Continental Europe
Cet article compare l'activité syndicale en faveur des droits des travailleuses 1 domestiques aux Pays-Bas, en Allemagne et en France. Même si le nombre de travailleuses domestiques syndiquées y est très faible, les syndicats ont développé des actions pour défendre les droits de ces travailleuses dans ces trois pays. Toutefois, ces actions n'ont été que partielles et n'ont pas pris en compte de manière exhaustive les besoins et les droits de tout…
Applying Neo-Republican Theory to Welfare to Work Practices
Drawing on the neo-republican theory of non-domination and a qualitative case study conducted in three Dutch municipalities, this article explores the extent to which external rules are able to prevent arbitrary power in relationships between welfare officers and work supervisors, on the one hand, and welfare recipients participating in mandatory work programmes, on the other hand. It concludes that external rules were insufficiently implemented …
Activation policies
Inclusive advocacy? Trade-union activity in support of the rights of domestic workers in Continental Europe
The Politics of Work–family Policies
Discourse Theory on Ideas and Policy Reform
How do new policy ideas enter the dominant policy discourse, and how do they change discourses and policy practices? Most ideational analyses of change are agency-centered, that is, they see change as resulting from people's choices as shaped by their (intersubjective) ideas. In contrast, this article draws on poststructuralist discourse theory, which does not assume the existence of real intransitive agents and structures with causal powers but,…
The role of rhetoric and affect in policy changes
Using methods that are developed in discourse historical analysis, this case study on Dutch life course policy suggests that analysis of (the interrelationship between) rhetoric and affect can contribute to a poststructuralist explanation of policy change. It is argued that the catachretic act of naming this policy ‘life course policy’ produced new spaces of representation within which (partly) incompatible goals and values were united. Actors id…
Discourse Theory on Ideas and Policy Reform
How do new policy ideas enter the dominant policy discourse, and how do they change discourses and policy practices? Most ideational analyses of change are agency-centered, that is, they see change as resulting from people's choices as shaped by their (intersubjective) ideas. In contrast, this article draws on poststructuralist discourse theory, which does not assume the existence of real intransitive agents and structures with causal powers but,…
The Duty to Work without a Wage
Since the rise of the activation paradigm in the 1990s, the duty to work without a wage has become widespread in European social assistance legislation. This paper investigates in a precise way the extent to which the duty to work without a wage follows the legal logic of a contractual relationship and how this duty is related to the fundamental right to an adequate standard of living. A comparison between German, Dutch and British social assista…
Claiming Care Rights as a Performative Act
Work, Care, and Gender
This article analyzes how Dutch policies on women’s emancipation were reframed between the years 2000 and 2007. It considers, in particular, the role of statistical data in the reframing process. Drawing on the framing literature in post-positivist analysis and on studies in governmentality, the article shows how statistical data in policy documents can be conceived of both as interpretive products of situated subjects and as knowledge producers …
Work-Related Sanctions in European Welfare States
The Politics of Work–family Policies
The Role of Ideas in Policy and Institutional Change
Most scholars engaged in ideational analysis agree that the availability of new ideas may cause existing welfare state policies and institutions to alter. This article considers the extent to which the open functional approach and constructivist approaches are able to explain the role of ideas in policy and institutional change. Notwithstanding their contribution to the study of the role of ideas in policy and institutional change, these approach…
Activation policies
The Governmentalization of the Trade Union and the Potential of Union-Based Resistance. The Case of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands Making Rights Claims
Ambivalence about rights is well known: rights may both challenge existing injustices while simultaneously re-enforcing sovereign regulatory control over citizens. In this article, we focus on the paradox that potentially radical and transformative claims to rights are made at a site - civil society - that under liberal governmentality has increasingly become a site of government. By exploring the unionization of undocumented migrant domestic wor…
Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare States
With welfare to work programmes under intense scrutiny, this book reviews a wide range of existing and future policies across Europe. Seventeen contributors provide case studies and legal, sociological and philosophical perspectives from around the continent, building a rich picture of welfare to work policies and their impact. They show how many schemes do not adequately address social rights and lived experiences, and consider alternatives base…
Welfare to work and the republican theory of non-domination
Disrespect or dignity? Experiences of mandatory work participants in the Netherlands from the perspective of the right to work
This article explores the extent to which mandatory work programmes (MWPs) which oblige social assistance recipients to perform work activities in order to improve or develop basic work skills, can be considered in conformity with the human right to work. Drawing on qualitative research in three municipalities in the Netherlands, the findings indicate that overall, the work in the MWPs infringed the right to work. However, part of the MWP partici…
Protecting working welfare recipients through human rights experimentalism
In this paper, we adopt an experimentalist approach to determining the content of international human rights for assessing national mandatory work programmes for recipients of social assistance (MWPs). This approach implies going back and forth between law and experience in order to determine the better way to secure human rights in an ever-changing environment. After having identified six criteria for evaluating MWPs in the soft case-law of inte…
Inclusive advocacy? Trade-union activity in support of the rights of domestic workers in Continental Europe
Applying Neo-Republican Theory to Welfare to Work Practices
Drawing on the neo-republican theory of non-domination and a qualitative case study conducted in three Dutch municipalities, this article explores the extent to which external rules are able to prevent arbitrary power in relationships between welfare officers and work supervisors, on the one hand, and welfare recipients participating in mandatory work programmes, on the other hand. It concludes that external rules were insufficiently implemented …
Inclusive Advocacy? Trade-Union Activity in Support of the Rights of Domestic Workers in Continental Europe
Cet article compare l'activité syndicale en faveur des droits des travailleuses 1 domestiques aux Pays-Bas, en Allemagne et en France. Même si le nombre de travailleuses domestiques syndiquées y est très faible, les syndicats ont développé des actions pour défendre les droits de ces travailleuses dans ces trois pays. Toutefois, ces actions n'ont été que partielles et n'ont pas pris en compte de manière exhaustive les besoins et les droits de tout…
Re-Interpreting Basic Values Underlying Social Security Law In Times of Climate Change and Ecological Crisis
Shaping solidarity, guaranteeing basic subsistence, maintaining income and employment activation can be seen as basic values underlying social security law in many European welfare states. This article argues that the meaning of these values or concepts is determined by legitimating discourses within which they are interpreted. While so far Rawls's theory of justice and related egalitarian liberal philosophies have had a great impact on these dis…
Can mandatory work in activation programmes be meaningful work
Quantitative well-being studies have shown that welfare recipients performing work activities in activation programmes report relatively high levels of well-being. This article asks how these findings can be explained, given welfare recipients’ constrained autonomy. To answer this question a qualitative study was conducted in the Netherlands to explore the interaction between welfare recipients’ constrained autonomy and how they experience work i…
Fragmented solidarity
Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in the Netherlands, this article examines how solidarity is shaped in the hospitality sector, in which solo self-employed platform workers and employees work side by side. Our findings show that divergent identities and interests, reinforced by legal frameworks, may undermine solidarity both among self-employed platform workers and between them and regular employees, while also weakening trade union effort…
Political science (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (9 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (9 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Public Administration (6 works)