This article contributes to emerging debates about how behavioural conditionality within welfare systems influences job quality. Drawing upon analysis of unique data from three waves of qualitative longitudinal interviews with 46 UK social security recipients (133 interviews), we establish that the impact of welfare conditionality is so substantial that it is no longer adequate to discuss job quality without reference to its interconnections to the welfare system. More specifically, we identify how conditionality drives welfare recipients’ experience of four core dimensions of job quality: disempowering and propelling claimants towards inadequate pay, insecurity and poor employment terms, undermining multiple intrinsic characteristics of work and creating what we term a new ‘Work–Life–Welfare balance’. Instead of acting as a neutral arbitrator between jobseekers and employers, the welfare system is exposed as complicit in reinforcing one-sided flexibility through one-sided conditionality, by emphasising intensive job-seeking, while leaving poor-quality work provided by employers unchecked.

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福利条件对工作质量体验的影响

本文有助于引发关于福利体系内的行为条件如何影响工作质量的新争论。根据对 46 名英国社会保障领取者的三轮定性纵向访谈（133 次访谈）的独特数据的分析，我们确定福利条件的影响如此之大，以至于在不考虑其相互关系的情况下讨论工作质量已不再足够到福利制度。更具体地说，我们确定了条件性如何推动福利接受者对工作质量的四个核心维度的体验：剥夺领取者的权力并迫使他们走向工资不足、不安全和恶劣的就业条件，破坏工作的多种内在特征，并创造我们所说的新的“工作-”。生活-福利平衡'。福利制度不是充当求职者和雇主之间的中立仲裁者，而是被暴露为通过片面条件加强片面灵活性的同谋，强调密集的求职，同时对雇主提供的低质量工作不加限制。