Governance reform in context: Welfare sector professionals' working and employment conditions.

Autor/inn/en	Parding, Karolina; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Stacey, Meghan
Titel	Governance reform in context: Welfare sector professionals' working and employment conditions. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Reform der Verwaltung im Kontext: Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen von Fachkräften des Wohlfahrtssektors.
Quelle	In: Current sociology, 69 (2021) 1, S. 119-139 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-7064
DOI	10.1177/0011392120909859
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Sekundarstufe II; Gymnasium; Privatschule; Lehrer; Einkommensunterschied; Reformpolitik; Sozialpolitik; Öffentliche Einrichtung; Arbeitsbedingungen; Ausgaben; Marktorientierung; Privatisierung; Öffentliche Ausgaben; Ökonomisierung; Auswirkung; Regionaler Faktor; Schweden
Abstract	"This article addresses the relationship between profession, organisation and spatial (geographical) setting, more specifically the relationship between welfare sector professionals' conditions for work amidst governance change. In previous research, the conditions for welfare sector professionals' work have largely been studied without taking the employing organisations or the local and regional situation into consideration. In this article, the authors question and seek to counteract this de-contextualised approach. They do so by showing that the circumstances of the specific workplace context are essential in understanding welfare sector professionals' working conditions, especially so in current governance contexts characterised to varying degrees by marketisation, via processes and structures which facilitate choice, competition, privatisation and devolution. This line of argument is illustrated in relation to how upper secondary teachers in Sweden experience their conditions for work and employment in eight schools across three different 'market types'. The authors contend that whilst different conditions in different workplaces can to some extent always be expected, current governance agendas in the welfare sector seem to exacerbate these differences. The article's theoretical contribution, therefore, is in the privileging of local contextual dynamics. The authors suggest a stronger emphasis on spatially-informed frames of reference in future studies of conditions for welfare sector professionals." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1