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- Publikation"The first one to pick up the phone": Forms of recruitment for low-skilled jobs(Seismo, 2022) Nadai, Eva; Hübscher, Robin [in: Swiss Journal of Sociology]Based on a qualitative study on the employability of workers without vocational qualification in five different industries, this article examines hiring practices in the labour market segment of low-skilled jobs from a sociology of convention perspective. In the absence of educational signals, employers use personal networks and trial workdays to reduce the uncertainty regarding the quality of job applicants. However, professional and technical intermediaries become more important, thus leading to the formalization of recruitment channels and valorisation.01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
- Publikation'Simple Jobs' for Disqualified Workers. Employability at the Bottom of the Labour Market(Seismo, 2021) Nadai, Eva; Gonon, Anna; Suter, Christian; Cuvi, Jacinto; Balsiger, Philip; Nedelcu, Mihaela [in: The Future of Work]Employability is a key issue in discourses and policies addressing the social consequences of labour market transformation. Knowledge and skills are commonly seen as core conditions of employability. Those labeled as unskilled, because they lack formal qualifications, are discursively constructed for what they are unable to be and do – they are disqualified as unemployable. At best they are fit for “simple jobs”, which do not require any specific occupational training or knowledge and can be handled by anyone. The chapter paper discusses employability in “simple jobs” from the perspective of employers. Drawing on the theoretical framework of the Economics of Convention (EC), we conceptualize employability and skills as emerging effects of valorization and as always contextual. Skills are not necessary or valuable in and of themselves but only in as much they are valued by a specific employer with respect to a specific coordination of production. Moreover, the value of workers is not merely an individual parameter, but it depends on their fit into an existing work organization. Matching workers and jobs can go both ways: selecting workers who fit the skills requirements of a job, as defined by the employer, or adapting technical and organizational forms to the skill level of the available workforce. The paper is based on empirical data from a qualitative study on the employability of unskilled workers in five industries with a high percentage of low-skilled jobs. It comprises three interview waves with workers (39 in the first wave), with employers (33 interviews in 27 firms) and with labour market intermediates (10 interviews in 3 private and 3 public employment agencies).04B - Beitrag Konferenzschrift
- PublikationThe Social Organization of Work Incapacity. Incapacities in the Swiss Social Insurance System and in the Workplace(GESIS, 2021) Nadai, Eva; Gonon, Anna; Hübscher, Robin; John, Anna [in: Historical Social Research]Arbeitsfähigkeit als unabdingbare Voraussetzung von Produktivität ist für die Wirtschaft und den Sozialstaat gleichermaßen ein zentrales Anliegen. Arbeitsunfähigkeit wirft daher die Frage nach sozialem Schutz für diejenigen auf, die als unproduktiv gelten. Auf der Basis zweier qualitativer Studien zur Beschäftigung von „behinderten“ respektive „unqualifizierten“ Arbeitskräften diskutieren wir die Regulierung von Arbeitsunfähigkeit im schweizerischen System der sozialen Sicherung. Am Beispiel der Invalidenversicherung wird aufgezeigt, wie Arbeitgeber Einfluss auf die Gestaltung sozialstaatlicher Institutionen nehmen, die dann als Formate in die Bewertung von Arbeitskraft eingehen. Sozialversicherungen und das Recht stellen zusammen mit betrieblichen Formaten Dispositive für die Bestimmung von Arbeits(un)fähigkeit und für Prüfungen der Qualität von Arbeitskräften dar. Sie eröffnen und begrenzen den Raum für die Tolerierung von verminderter Produktivität und für Kompromisse zwischen Qualitätskonventionen. Wenn gesundheitliche Einschränkungen und fehlende Qualifikationen kumulieren, führen die existierenden Formate eher zu Exklusion als zu Schutz.01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
- PublikationCosts, risks and responsibilities. Negotiating the value of disabled labour(Seismo, 2018) Nadai, Eva; Gonon, Anna; Rotzetter, Fabienne [in: Swiss Journal of Sociology]Drawing on the theoretical framework of the Economics of Convention this paper analyses the employment of people with disabilities as a valuation process. Based on case studies and interviews in business companies and disability insurance offices it explores how employers and disability insurance determine the value of disabled workers. Since employers are not willing to alter performance standards, job design and work organisation disability insurance attains individual exceptions for its clients at best, while disabling standards remain intact.01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
- PublikationMoral Economy. The Employment of People with Disability and the Shifting Responsibilities for the Social(03.09.2015) Nadai, EvaSocial scientists describe the radical transformation of welfare states in the past decades as a neoliberal economization of the political and the social. The economic logic of the market has become the dominant regulatory principle of all societal spheres with respect to both means and ends. Most often these processes are portrayed as unidirectional: it is the economic logic that colonises the social, political and personal spheres. In this paper the perspective is reversed. Drawing on Ronen Shamir’s thesis of “market-embedded morality” and on the theoretical framework of the sociology of conventions the occupational integration of people with disabilities is analysed as an example of the shifting responsibilities for the social. The focus is on the interactions of the Swiss invalidity insurance (IV) and businesses with respect to the employment of the disabled. The recent revisions of the invalidity insurance in Switzerland have introduced more financial incentives and support for employers, without establishing corresponding legal obligations. In this context the cantonal IV offices resort to moral and normative means instead, while at the same time still ‘arguing the business case’ for the social commitment of employers.06 - Präsentation