"Job seeker" experiences of punitive activation in Job Services Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11229302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simone Casey (0000-0003-1705-3777, RMIT University Melbourne Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 847-860 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajs4.144 |
| OpenAlex | W3099512668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 28 |
The Job Services Australia era (2009–2015) was a distinct stage in the evolution of Australia’s employment services because it was then that "work‐first" payment by results contracts, in combination with demanding "work‐first" activation, resulted in "punitive activation". Experiences of this shift were collected in interviews with a small cohort of job seekers about incidents involving threat of sanction. These incidents involving threat of sanction were construed as moments where job seekers were directly exposed to the coercive authority of activation workers deployed to meet "work‐first" targets. The findings show that "work‐first" marketisation incentives combined with demanding "work‐first" activation led to an experience of "punitive activation
Business · Economics · Incentive · Payment · Political science · Project commissioning · Publishing · Punitive damages · Seekers · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Finance
Welfare Conditionality
Work and the Welfare State
Subversive citizens
Activating Jobseekers
Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences
Introduction
Welfare Conditionality in Lived Experience
Set up to Fail’? How Welfare Conditionality Undermines Citizenship for Vulnerable Groups
Unemployment and punitive activation as human rights issues
Half A Citizen
Welfare conditionality and social marginality
Workfare as welfare
Feeling motivated yet? Long‐term unemployed people's perspectives on the implementation of workfare in Australia
Australian employment services
Making welfare conditional
A Bourdieusian analysis of employment services workers in an era of Workfirst
Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services – Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare
Work Activation Regimes and Well‐being of Unemployed People
Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Welfare State
Welfare Conditionality and Blaming the Unemployed
Conceptualising the active welfare subject
The Organization of Discipline
Disciplining the poor
The Political Economy of Active Labor-Market Policy
Demanding Activation
Quasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |