Abstract
This article shows how social workers perceive their own occupational field and how this self-per-ception is related to the awareness of precarity among their clients. Drawing on the methodological approach of Grounded Theory, qualitative interviews with social workers in Austria have been conducted and analyzed. As a result we suggest to extend the concept of precarity by including the dimensions of institutional dependency. Within a hierarchical system, social workers experience various constraints in terms of time schedule, the organisation of work and the growing importance of economic figures. The lack in decision-making power is in stark contrast to the self-responsibi-lity and to the intrinsic motivation, focusing on what is best for the clients. Increasing insecurities in the profession of social work affect the social workers as well as their clients, showing a strong interdependency between different kinds of precarity.
Titel in Übersetzung | On the Left and the Right Hand of the State: New insecurities in social work in Austria. How do social workers perceive the precarity of their own occupational field and the living condition of their clients? |
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Originalsprache | Deutsch |
Seiten (von - bis) | 316-336 |
Seitenumfang | 21 |
Fachzeitschrift | Sozialwissenschaftliche Rundschau |
Jahrgang | 59 |
Ausgabenummer | 3 |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 2019 |
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Österreichische Systematik der Wissenschaftszweige (ÖFOS)
- 502053 Volkswirtschaftslehre
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- 502042 Umweltökonomie
- 502030 Projektmanagement
- 504030 Wirtschaftssoziologie
Schlagwörter
- New insecurities
- Precariousness
- Precarity
- Qualitative interviews
- Social work