Abstract This paper analyses the impact of the intensification of work-related conditionality on the lived experience of jobseekers in Ireland. Post-crisis Ireland has witnessed the emergence of a definitive policy trajectory which seeks to enable a lifelong attachment to the labour force through work-related conditionality buttressed by sanctions. This mode of governing unemployment attempts a restructuring of the caseworker–claimant relationship through increased engagement, claimant adherence to mandatory conditions, and surveillance underpinned by potential reduction, suspension or loss of benefit. The paper provides a qualitative investigation of the lived experience of this impact through a thematic analysis of forty-two interviews with jobseekers in a county in the east of Ireland. The focus on the agency of jobseekers illustrates a system based on superficial engagement in which conditionality primarily operates as bureaucratic formality. This is reflective of a systemic indifference to claimants’ needs and circumstances, producing a performance of feigned compliance in response.

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驾驭冷漠：爱尔兰求职者的福利条件经验

摘要 本文分析了工作相关条件的强化对爱尔兰求职者生活体验的影响。危机后的爱尔兰见证了明确的政策轨迹的出现，该轨迹旨在通过制裁支持的与工作相关的条件来实现对劳动力的终生依恋。这种管理失业的模式试图通过增加参与、索赔人遵守强制性条件以及以潜在减少、暂停或损失福利为基础的监督来重组个案工作者与索赔人的关系。本文通过对爱尔兰东部一个县的 42 名求职者访谈的主题分析，对这种影响的生活体验进行了定性调查。对求职者代理的关注说​​明了一个基于表面参与的系统，其中条件主要作为官僚形式运作。这反映了对索赔人的需求和情况的系统性漠不关心，从而产生了假装顺从的表现。