The Politics of Labour Market Activation

Employability, Exclusion and Active Citizenship

Bibliographic Data

ID22307705
AuthorsMagnus Dahlstedt (0000-0003-0694-5753, Linköping University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume43
Issue1
Publication date2013-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevija za sociologiju (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0350-154X • E-ISSN: 1846-7954
PublisherCroatian Sociological Association (PUBLISHER • HR)
DOI10.5613/rzs.43.1.1
OpenAlexW2074239127
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited13

The article focuses on the formation of the ideal "active citizen" in labour market policy and analyses central ideas and arguments in labour market policy from the 1990s onwards, particularly concerning dominant conceptualisations of work and the ideal working citizen. In Sweden, as well as in many other countries, labour market policies have changed rapidly during the last two decades. Ever since the late 1980s and early 1990s, Swedish labour market policy has primarily been aiming at "activating" citizens, getting them out of passive "welfare dependency" into active "self-employment". With the "activating" labour market policies of the 1990s, work has gradually become a duty, rather than a fundamental social right

Active citizenship · Citizenship · Croatian · Economics · Employability · Flexicurity · Labour economics · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Social exclusion · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Philosophy · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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