Activating the ‘ideal jobseeker’: Experiences of individuals with mental health conditions on the UK Work Programme Scholz, Frederike and Ingold, Jo 2020, Activating the ‘ideal jobseeker’: Experiences of individuals with mental health conditions on the UK Work Programme, Human Relations, pp. 1-24, doi: 10.1177/0018726720934848. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Activating the ‘ideal jobseeker’: Experiences of individuals with mental health conditions on the UK Work Programme Author(s) Scholz, Frederike Ingold, Jo orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-8262 Journal name Human Relations Start page 1 End page 24 Total pages 24 Publisher SAGE Publishing Place of publication Thousand Oaks, CA Publication date 2020-06-24 ISSN 0018-7267 1741-282X Keyword(s) active labour market programmes (ALMPs) disability ideal jobseeker inequality regime mental health conditions (MHCs) Summary Active labour market programmes (ALMPs) are critical preparation mechanisms to assist people to enter the workplace. This article analyses qualitative data from a hard-to-access group of individuals with mental health conditions (MHCs) participating in a large-scale UK ALMP, the Work Programme (WP). Using the lens of the ‘extended social model of disability’ and the concept of the ‘ideal worker’, the article demonstrates that ableist norms of the ‘ideal jobseeker’ were embedded within the Programme’s design, prioritising individuals with certain abilities and behaviour over others. Second, the article extends Acker’s framework of inequality regimes to demonstrate that formal and informal inequality practices within the Programme maintained, rather than challenged, disability inequality. This was visible along four dimensions: (1) ALMPs as organising processes producing disability inequality; (2) the visibility of disability inequality; (3) the legitimacy of disability inequality; and (4) control and compliance derived from hierarchical social relations within ALMP design and implementation, involving either stabilising or destabilising effects on disabled jobseekers. The theoretical and practical contributions of this article demonstrate that the design of the WP as an employment preparation mechanism pushed disabled jobseekers further away from paid employment, rather than towards workplace inclusion. Language eng DOI 10.1177/0018726720934848 Indigenous content off Field of Research 1503 Business and Management 1608 Sociology 1701 Psychology HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2020, The Authors Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30141648 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law Department of Management Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 11:46:30 EST Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 05:01:00 EST Fri, 11 Sep 2020, 06:04:00 EST Tue, 15 Sep 2020, 11:44:14 EST Tue, 15 Sep 2020, 11:45:48 EST Sat, 26 Sep 2020, 02:31:09 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 1 times in TR Web of Science Cited 1 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 35 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 11:46:30 EST

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