The disabling state of an active society
By: by Mikael Holmqvist.
Series: Welfare and society
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780754678328; 9780754696452
Subjects: People with disabilities -- Employment -- Sweden; Employment subsidies -- Sweden; Welfare recipients -- Employment -- Sweden; Social participation -- Sweden
Description: "This book is based on a detailed ethnographic study of the highly praised Swedish rehabilitation organization Samhal, which the author augments with archival research on activation programs in Sweden and extensive interviews with both welfare agencies and jobseekers."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Samhall : a popular activation program; title: Identifying the needy; title: Entering Samhall; title: Preparatory examinations; title: Placing the client at the right place; title: Developing teamwork; title: Structuring behavior; title: Specializing behavior; title: Pepping managers; title: Sheltering from reality's complexity; title: Developing in a disabled world; title: Exiting as "non-disabled"; title: Lock-in as disabled; title: Good intentions, misunderstood results?; title: The disabling state of an active society.