The Role of Shared Resilience in Building Employment Pathways with People with a Disability

Perri Campbell (), Erin Wilson, Luke John Howie, Andrew Joyce, Jenny Crosbie and Robyn Eversole
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Perri Campbell: Centre for Social Impact, School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia
Erin Wilson: Centre for Social Impact, School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia
Luke John Howie: School of Education, Deakin University, Geelong 3216, Australia
Andrew Joyce: Centre for Social Impact, School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia
Jenny Crosbie: Centre for Social Impact, School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn 3122, Australia
Robyn Eversole: Freeman College of Management, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA

Disabilities, 2024, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: For workers living with a disability, pathways to sustainable employment in the open labour market are inhibited by barriers operating at different structural and societal levels. The culture of Australia’s government employment services has applied a ‘work-first’ approach that emphasises finding people employment rather than supporting the acquisition of skills and education. The net effect of this approach is the preferencing of short-term employment solutions, with a focus on individual behaviour or so-called resilience and an emphasis on personal responsibility instead of addressing structural issues. In this paper, we explore how people with disability can be supported in finding employment through a shared resilience approach offered by a Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE). We suggest that WISEs can provide the conditions for shared resilience by developing and sustaining networks needed to generate hybrid pathways to work and by role modelling inclusive work conditions in the open labour market.

Keywords: work integration social enterprise (WISE); Australian disability enterprise (ADE); open employment; supported employment; customised; disability; hybrid; tailored employment; resilience; neoliberalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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