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Introduction: Disability and Labour in Modern SocietiesRadu Harald Dinu and Staffan BengtssonChapter One -- The Right to Work: Disability Awareness and Activism in Twentieth-Century CanadaDustin GalerChapter Two -- Gendered Labour and Consumer Culture in the Multiple Sclerosis Associations in Sweden and West GermanyYlva SöderfeldtChapter Three -- 'Salaries, Not Benefits!' Disability Rights Activism and the Right to Work in the Scandinavian Welfare StatesAnna DerksenChapter Four -- For Society and the Individual: Disability and Work in Post-War SwedenStaffan BengtssonChapter Five -- From Industrialised to Knowledge-Based Societies: The Metamorphosis of the French Disabled Worker since 1957Cristina PopescuChapter Six -- Warriors into Workers: Soviet Labour Policy and Disabled Veterans of the Great Patriotic WarFrances BernsteinChapter Seven -- Beyond Labour: Socialist Disability Policy in the Realm of Mental HealthIna DimitrovaChapter Eight -- Socialist Humanism, Work, and Disability in Socialist Romania: The Legal Regime of the Third-Degree Invalidity Pension, 1949-1989 Cristina DiacChapter Nine -- Becoming a Productive Citizen: Labour and the Blind Community in Socialist Romania Radu Harald DinuChapter Ten -- Vocational Guidance in Socialist Czechoslovakia and the Context of Global and National Histories of DisabilityVictoria ShmidtChapter Eleven -- Work and Life Courses of Polio Survivors in Socialist Poland Marcin StasiakAfterwordMonika Baár

This article focuses on young unemployed people in Sweden involved in two activation measures. Using the analytical framework of governmentality, it analyses how the participants perceive and value activation measures as government-driven interventions aimed at bringing young people into the labour market based on a neoliberal discourse of the welfare state. The article highlights that the welfare system tries to not only promote behavioural changes, but also change the way people think. At the centre of the study are the people-changing technologies embedded in the Swedish norms of a strong work ethic. The analysis underlines how these technologies are internalised and even become a part of the participant's own free will.

This article presents various forms of activities performed by locally based social welfare research and development (R&D) units in Sweden. The authors argue that these units are vital actors in the field of encouraging and strengthening evidence-based social work practice. They are close to social services organisations and have the ability to use flexible methods in order to bridge the gap between research and practice in a local context. The theoretical framework for the article is the organisational excellence model – an archetype for how research can be used in practice.