Social Integrative Enterprises and the Construction of an Impaired Lumpenproletariat - a Swedish Case Study

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ID2370835
AuthorsChristian Maravelias (0000-0002-7737-6968, Stockholm University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume48
Issue3
Pages423-436
Publication date2022-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/08969205211033892
OpenAlexW3192624196
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited24

This paper accounts for a study of the joint ambitions of the Swedish Public employment office and social enterprises to integrate jobseekers with impairments in the labor market. The number of jobseekers with impairments has increased in western labor markets. The Swedish labor market is a particular case in point. Why? I use critical disability studies in combination with Marxist studies on immaterial labor to develop the following answer: An increasing number of jobseekers are diagnosed as impaired, not because their bodily constitution makes them unfit to handle manual labor, but because their socio-cultural characteristics make them unfit to handle immaterial forms of labor. Furthermore, I show how the diagnosis of these jobseekers as impaired does not lead to that they are also considered disabled. On the contrary, they are considered to have a particular, bio-medically defined fit and ability when it comes to handling simple, manual and low paid forms of work. Hereby, I argue that they are made up as a bio-medically defined 'lumpenproletariat

Business · Constitution · Economics · Labour economics · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Disability Education and Employment · Disability Rights and Representation · Engineering · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Law

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