Social work in the changing welfare state : a policy analysis of active labour market policies for disadvantaged youth in Austria / Alban Knecht. Opladen ; Berlin ; Toronto : Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2024
Inhalt
- Social Work in the Changing Welfare State. A Policy Analysis of Active Labour Market Policies for Disadvantaged Youth in Austria
- 1 Youth employment promotion in the changing welfare state
- 1.1 Challenges at the transition from school to vocational training
- 1.2 Changes in the welfare state and the increasing socio-political importance of education
- 1.3 Changes in the framework conditions of social work
- 1.4 Structure of the work
- 2 The Resource Theory perspective as a theoretical framework
- 2.1 Resource Theory (IMTM) at a glance
- 2.2 Resource Theory (IMTM) as a multidimensional theory of inequality
- 2.3 Resource Theory (IMTM) as a socio-political theory
- 2.4 Resource Theory (IMTM) in social work
- 2.5 Understanding the mechanisms of resource distribution by analysing discourses and institutions – the role of political guiding principles and mission statements
- 3 Changing discourses on labour market policies for youth and youth employment promotion
- 3.1 Notes on design and method
- 3.2 Public discourses on youth unemployment and labour market policies for youth
- 3.3 The discourses of experts and professionals and their political significance
- 3.4 Discourses of professionals working in the field and subjectification by young people
- 3.5 Results of the discourse analysis
- 4 Institutional changes of youth employment support in the government coalitions in Austria (2000–2020)
- 4.1 ÖVP-FPÖ-Coalition I (2000–2007): The expansion of the company-oriented apprenticeship promotion
- 4.2 SPÖ-ÖVP-Coalition (2007–2017): From the training guarantee to compulsory training
- 4.3 ÖVP-FPÖ-Coalition II (2017–2019): The activation of Austrian youths and the blocking of young asylum-seekers
- 5 Results and conclusions: On the governance of the welfare state
- 5.1 Results of discourse analysis and institutional analysis
- 5.2 Social inequalities and new divisions – issues of social justice
- 5.3 Right-wing populist/extreme right social policy as a hierarchising and exclusionary policy of prevention
- 5.4 Thinking the welfare state “from below”
- 6 Impact of socio-political change on social work and on young people
- 6.1 Changing social pedagogy of transition through social investment labour market policy
- 6.2 The quasi-pedagogy of the market and right-wing populist/extreme-right exclusionary politics
- 6.3 Discrimination and lack of recognition as problems of young people and as an issue of social work
- 6.4 Lack of opportunities for participation and the possibility of vocational political training
- 7 Conclusion and outlook
- Backmatter