Reframing disability in the labour market: narratives of value told by employers
This article addresses how employers privileging disability-specific experience and impairment-related competencies in hiring practices reframe disability from a limited ability to work to a valuable human resource. It is based on the analysis of 14 in-depth interviews with disabled and non-disabled...
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| Xuất bản năm: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/alterjdr, |
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| Những tác giả chính: | , |
| Định dạng: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Anglais |
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Alter
2022
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Tóm tắt: | This article addresses how employers privileging disability-specific experience and impairment-related competencies in hiring practices reframe disability from a limited ability to work to a valuable human resource. It is based on the analysis of 14 in-depth interviews with disabled and non-disabled Norwegian employers that privilege hiring people with disabilities. Applying Boltanski and Thévenot’s theory of justification, it is argued that employers’ narratives rely on several orders of worth to legitimate hiring strategies and decisions. Findings suggest that employers narrate productivity as something that values the industrious citizen. Further, based on values of collectivity, the employers mobilise collective identities inherent in civic ideas of disability rights promotion, whereas narratives of loyalty value dutifulness and employees who stay in their jobs. By placing value on loyalty, such narratives could portray employees with disabilities as being particularly servile, and their employment as akin to charity. The policy context emphasising labour market participation for people with disabilities and employers’ central role in achieving this seems to play an important role in shaping the employers’ narratives. |
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