The Moralization of Labor: Establishing the Social Responsibility of Employers for Disabled Workers

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dc.audienceScience
dc.contributor.authorNadai, Eva
dc.contributor.authorCanonica, Alan
dc.contributor.editorSchiller-Merkens, Simone
dc.contributor.editorBalsiger, Philip
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-19T12:53:24Z
dc.date.available2019-08-21T12:42:32Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractAs a “fictitious commodity” (Polanyi), that cannot be separated from the human being who is its owner, labor has a special moral significance. However, this moral quality is not a given but must be asserted in struggles over the value of labor. With the example of disabled workers in Switzerland, this paper examines the moralization of labor as a means to revalue a category of workers who range far down the labor queue. Moralization mediates the tension between the normative societal goal of inclusion for disabled people and the freedom of employers to select the most “productive” workers. Drawing on the theoretical approach of the Economics of Convention the paper analyzes the valuation frames proposed by economic and welfare state actors in political debates over the establishment of the Swiss disability insurance and the role of employers regarding occupational integration. A core concept used in negotiations of the value of disabled labor in the public arena and within individual businesses is the “social responsibility” of employers. Historically, employers’ associations successfully promoted the liberal principle of voluntary responsibility to prevent state interference in the labor market. In contrast, disability insurance argues predominantly within the market and the industrial convention to “sell” its clientele in the context of employer campaigns and case-related interactions with employers. Only recently, both sides started to reframe the employment of disabled people as a win-win affair, which would reconcile economic self-interest and the common good.
dc.description.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11654/24840
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-78769-120-9
dc.identifier.issn0733-558X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11654/24840
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-1042
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEmerald
dc.relationBerufliche Eingliederung zwischen Invalidenversicherung und Wirtschaft, 2014-05-01
dc.relation.ispartofThe Contested Moralities of Markets
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch in the Sociology of Organizations
dc.spatialBingley
dc.subjecteconomy of conventions
dc.subjectwelfare state history
dc.subjectemployment of people with disabilities
dc.subject.ddc300 - Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologiede
dc.subject.ddc360 - Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungende
dc.titleThe Moralization of Labor: Establishing the Social Responsibility of Employers for Disabled Workers
dc.type04A - Beitrag Sammelband
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fhnw.PublishedSwitzerlandNo
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fhnw.affiliation.hochschuleHochschule für Soziale Arbeit FHNWde_CH
fhnw.affiliation.institutInstitut Professionsforschung und -entwicklungde_CH
fhnw.pagination87-110
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