Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
1. Introduction 9
2.1 How Institutions Structure the Youth Phase 17
2.2. Situating the Swiss Transition Regime 27
2.3. The Politics of VET in Switzerland and the Emergence of Transition Measures 39
2.4. Excursus: Collectivist Skill Formation Systems and the Right to Education 53
2.5. From the Emergence of a Problem Towards the Construction of a Policy 67
Einleitung 75
3.1. The Life-Course as an Institutional Program and a Subjective Construction 80
3.2. The Organizational Regulation of Biographies 93
4.1. Street-level Bureaucrats, Institutionalized Organizations and People Processing Organizations 113
5.1. A Focus on Activation Practices 153
6.1. A Short Introduction to Motivational Semesters 177
6.2. Conflicts Between Orders of Worth and situated Compromises in Human Service Work: The Case of Sanctions 191
6.3. Gate-keeping and the Negotiation of Employability: The Intermediary Function of Motivational Semesters 208
6.4. Constructing the Client that Can Create Himself: Technologies of Agency and the Production of a Will 225
6.5. "Making Up" Viable Future Selves Through Evaluation - Working with the Portfolio-Tool 239
6.6. Guided Self-Exploration as a "Narrative Machinery" that Produces Intelligible Subjects 251
7.1. Organizations as the "Missing Link" for the Mediation Between Systemic Requirements and Subjectivity 255
7.2. The institutional Production of Subjectivity: Biographisation - Valuation - Optimisation - Autonomisation 260
8. Bibliography 277
9. Annex 309