ABSTRACT Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE) offer supported work environments for people experiencing disadvantage, including people with disability. This paper reflects on a research project that is mapping the ways in which social enterprises in regional Australian cities produce wellbeing for their employees. Through supported employment programs, these organisations are transforming individual lives, helping to build a sense of self-worth and purpose, and increase individuals’ social skills and capacities. Many of the perceived benefits are associated with a belief in the innate good of paid work. Based upon interviews with employees in the social enterprises, it is apparent that the hopes attached to providing ‘meaningful work’ are considerable. At the same time social enterprises are taking on social responsibilities that were once provided by the state, while also selling their services as employers of disabled and disadvantaged members of society and maintaining commercial viability of the enterprise. Using feminist political economy alongside discussion of the distributive economy, this paper explores how contemporary policy conditions, productivist biases and normative discourses about the value of wage work inflect the forms of wellbeing that can be experienced by WISE workers.

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工作有益于身心健康吗？澳大利亚偏远地区的工作整合社会企业

摘要 工作整合社会企业 (WISE) 为处于不利地位的人（包括残疾人）提供支持的工作环境。本文反映了一个研究项目，该项目正在绘制澳大利亚偏远城市的社会企业为员工创造福祉的方式。通过支持性就业计划，这些组织正在改变个人生活，帮助建立自我价值感和目标感，并提高个人的社交技能和能力。许多感知到的好处都与对有偿工作与生俱来的好处的信念有关。根据对社会企业员工的采访，很明显，提供“有意义的工作”的希望是相当大的。与此同时，社会企业在承担曾经由国家承担的社会责任的同时，也以社会残疾人和弱势群体的雇主身份出售其服务，维护企业的商业生存能力。本文将女权主义政治经济学与分配经济的讨论结合使用，探讨了当代政策条件、生产主义偏见和关于有薪工作价值的规范话语如何影响 WISE 工人可以体验的福利形式。