AFFECTIVE WORK AND ACCESS TO EXCELLENCE — Reorganizing Nordic Welfare

Katrin Erna Hjort

doi:10.14738/assrj.61.6062

Abstract

In the Nordic countries of the 20 th century, the caring businesses have usually been handled by women in families or by public institutions of the welfare state. In the 21 st century, however, care is becoming a real business. The affective work of education, health and social services is organized by the competitive state or in private welfare enterprises. The economization of welfare leads to the rationalization of work processes and the selection of services and clients. The consequences for the professionals as well as the clients are ambiguous. On one hand, hyper-professionals are developing highly specialized work with the potential to extend human life capacities almost infinitely. On the other hand, sub-professionals are still doing more standardized jobs, and the selection between clients is decreasing. Access to excellent care becomes the central issue, and both professionals and the public are confronted with new ethical challenges.

Highlights

In the Nordic countries of the 20th century, the caring businesses have usually been handled by women in families or by public institutions of the welfare state
The basic idea of the welfare state model was to improve social equality through public services financed by progressive taxation [5]
Spiritual Meaning a We might identify a fifth subsumption where different waves of human search for meaning, such as “New Age,” in different versions become still more important objects for financial investments and profit-making. When creating such a periodization, it is important to stress that Hardt himself emphasizes that the construction of different kinds of work does not follow a linear logic but is comprised of simultaneous or non-simultaneous processes established in the global division of labor

Summary

Real science

Spiritual Work Human Search for Revitalizing of Ethics, Mystique, “Trans Global” a Religious or Metaphysics. Spiritual Meaning a We might identify a fifth subsumption where different waves of human search for meaning, such as “New Age,” in different versions become still more important objects for financial investments and profit-making When creating such a periodization, it is important to stress that Hardt himself emphasizes that the construction of different kinds of work does not follow a linear logic but is comprised of simultaneous or non-simultaneous processes established in the global division of labor. Model 2 illustrates the process of the establishment, expansion and erosion of what the German critical theorist Ulrike Prokop [35] has called “the female powers of production.” These female powers are constructed as certain dispositions and horizons of expectations within both the privileged and restricted conditions of the nuclear family, which became dominant in the middle of the century. Caring work is about love or a calling, but becomes a career path, and success or failure become possibilities

Intimization Dependency Disciplining The helpless client in need of care

REQUIREMENTS You need to be OF THE CLIENT able to position