The ethics of entrepreneurability in the youth guarantee program of Spain: A discursive perspective

Abstract

The paradigm of entrepreneurship goes beyond mere intervention in the labor market: it also implies a policy of production of new subjects of work. The aim of this article is to explore the current political mutation in the ways of conceptualizing justice at work. To this end, we have analyzed the socio-labor ethics that promote entrepreneurship policies- the ethics of entrepreneurability-through the study of the Youth Guarantee program. From the discourse analysis of the main normative and political texts produced at European and national level of this program and its entrepreneurial dimension, three of the pillars that articulate these entrepreneurability ethics have been identified: the inexorable property of oneself; the normative engineering of the self and the articulation of the conflict within the subject. This work concludes by examining the implications of this semantic and political transformation (from employment to entrepreneurment) in the ways of thinking and questioning ourselves as a society.