„Arbeitsmarktferne“ Personen – wer sind die? Zu veränderten Exklusionsdynamiken in neokapitalistischen Gesellschaften

The current socio-political discourse under the heading of activation is coined by the neoliberal vision of economic competitive pressure and created a variety of precarious living realities. These social dynamics of competition furthermore produced a group of people "furthest from the labor market" whose subjective experiences as well as their occupational biographies show a great distance to the still present notion of a standard employment relationship, which is far beyond social cohesion promises of neo-capitalist societies. Based on a survey of experts and social-political actors in the field as well as group interviews with people in measures co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) this paper develops a typology of people “furthest from the labor market”. The typology presented in this paper on the one hand shows the heterogeneity of this group and on the other hand suggests interpreting the phenomenon of people “furthest of the labor market” as a direct result of exclusionary processes in neo-capitalist societies. Keywords: people “furthest from the labor market”, neo-capitalist societies, social competition, discourse of activation, group discussions.