Unemployed citizen or ‘at risk’ client? Classification systems and employment services in Denmark and Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11432017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorte Caswell (0000-0001-8700-3850, Danish Institute of Local Governmental Studies, corresponding author), Greg Marston (0000-0002-0263-140X, The University of Queensland), Jørgen Elm Larsen (0000-0002-8604-7509, University of Copenhagen) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 384-404 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-0183 • E-ISSN: 1461-703X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0261018310367674 |
| OpenAlex | W2162051935 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
| References cited | 21 |
The paper explores recent developments in Australian and Danish unemployment policies with a special focus on the technologies used to classify and categorize unemployed people on government benefits. Using governmentality as our theoretical framework, we consider the implications of reducing complex social problems to statistical scores and differentiated categories — forms of knowledge that diminish the capacity to think about unemployment as a collective problem requiring collective solutions. What we argue is that classification systems, which are part and parcel of welfare state administration, are becoming more technocratic in the way in which they divide the population into different categories of risk
Categorization · Danish · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Governmentality · Labour economics · Political science · Population · Public economics · Public relations · Social Welfare · Sociology · State (computer science · Technocracy · Unemployment · Welfare state · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Categorization
| Unique citing works | 54 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 53 |