Precarious Education-to-Work Transitions: Entering Welfare Professions under a Workfarist Regime

Barbara Samaluk

Work, Employment & Society, 2021, vol. 35, issue 1, 137-156

Abstract: This article looks at the process of education-to-work transitions in female-dominated welfare professions within the Slovenian post-crisis context marked by a workfarist agenda. It departs from a scholarship that conceptualises precarity as a transitional vulnerability and disaffiliation exacerbated by workfarist policies to explore the contemporary experience of those trying to achieve professional integration under a volatile workfarist regime. The findings reveal a mismatch between established regulations for early career recruitment and professional licensing and actual chances in the labour market to meet these requirements through available workfarist non-standard, entry-level jobs/schemes designed for particular status and/or socio-demographic groups. It gives new evidence that European workfare regimes exacerbate precarity and a novel understanding of state-manufactured precarisation as an intersectional process of marginalisation and discrimination that not only hinders integration into welfare professions, but also downloads the costs of social reproduction on the next generation, causes precarious ageing and widens intersectional differences.

Keywords: active labour market policies; education-to-work transitions; EU funding; intersectionality; precarity; precarisation; Slovenia; social reproduction; welfare professions; workfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017020931335

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