Entering precarious job markets in the era of austerity measures: the perceptions of Master of Social Work students
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Abstract
Despite the positive outlook for social work job prospects reported by governmental and professional associations, the reality on the front line looks bleak. There are growing concerns that social work jobs have become increasingly precarious under the dominance of neoliberal policies, through which governments cut back on social services in the name of austerity. Surprisingly, we were unable to locate research exploring the perceptions of social work students about to enter these precarious job markets. To address this gap, we conducted a qualitative study with Master of Social Work students at a mid-sized Canadian university. Students were asked what they thought about their employment prospects after graduation and what they were doing to prepare themselves. The thematic analysis of students’ narratives suggested that Master of Social Work students rode a creative tension between the fear of precarious jobs and the hope of non-precarious employment. Implications for social work education, policy and practice are discussed.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it