A Glass House of Care: Sheltered Employment for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Based on data from ethnographic fieldwork in Norway, we explore relationships of care between workers with intellectual disabilities (ID) and staff in the context of sheltered employment. Care relations in a sheltered workshop are analysed using Annemarie Mol’s (2008) ‘logic of care’, which we combi...
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| author | Jenny Frogner Halvor Melbye Hanisch Lisbeth Kvam Aud Elisabeth Witsø |
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| description | Based on data from ethnographic fieldwork in Norway, we explore relationships of care between workers with intellectual disabilities (ID) and staff in the context of sheltered employment. Care relations in a sheltered workshop are analysed using Annemarie Mol’s (2008) ‘logic of care’, which we combine with the concept ‘the logic of the market’. In this context, relations of care enable persons with ID as workers, but tensions between care and market logics influence the operation of the workshop and its workers. We argue that processes of care transform market logics, and at the same time, market logics also transform processes of care. The logics are found to support each other, but the balance between them is fragile. This results in unstable conditions for care in the sheltered workshop. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7e5cf0596b054ef59b9feabcee403e692023-11-23T08:00:29ZengStockholm University PressScandinavian Journal of Disability Research1745-30112023-10-01251282–294282–29410.16993/sjdr.992155A Glass House of Care: Sheltered Employment for Persons with Intellectual DisabilitiesJenny Frogner0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0622-3710Halvor Melbye Hanisch1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9214-2572Lisbeth Kvam2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8801-9368Aud Elisabeth Witsø3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9437-4908Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyVID Specialized UniversityNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyBased on data from ethnographic fieldwork in Norway, we explore relationships of care between workers with intellectual disabilities (ID) and staff in the context of sheltered employment. Care relations in a sheltered workshop are analysed using Annemarie Mol’s (2008) ‘logic of care’, which we combine with the concept ‘the logic of the market’. In this context, relations of care enable persons with ID as workers, but tensions between care and market logics influence the operation of the workshop and its workers. We argue that processes of care transform market logics, and at the same time, market logics also transform processes of care. The logics are found to support each other, but the balance between them is fragile. This results in unstable conditions for care in the sheltered workshop.https://account.sjdr.se/index.php/su-j-sjdr/article/view/992sheltered employmentlogic of careemploymentintellectual disabilitycare |
| spellingShingle | Jenny Frogner Halvor Melbye Hanisch Lisbeth Kvam Aud Elisabeth Witsø A Glass House of Care: Sheltered Employment for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research sheltered employment logic of care employment intellectual disability care |
| title | A Glass House of Care: Sheltered Employment for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities |
| title_full | A Glass House of Care: Sheltered Employment for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities |
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| title_short | A Glass House of Care: Sheltered Employment for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities |
| title_sort | glass house of care sheltered employment for persons with intellectual disabilities |
| topic | sheltered employment logic of care employment intellectual disability care |
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