What if all kinds of work were considered ‘real jobs,’ and everyone who worked had a job? Using imaginary thinking in the context of Swedish municipal activation services
本文通过乌托邦视角研究瑞典市政激活服务，分析参与者梦想中内化与抵抗就业能力叙事、市场逻辑和资本主义结构的张力，展示边缘劳动力市场经验如何激发对现行劳动体系的批判并构想可能的未来。
This article explores active labor market policies through a utopian lens, focusing on Swedish municipal activation services. Users of such services participated in visionary workshops and were invited to dream about what could be different in their (working) lives. In the analysis of the participants’ dreams, a tension between the internalization of and resistance to employability narratives, market logics, and capitalist structures emerges. By examining these dynamics, the article demonstrates how utopian thinking, rooted in experiences from the margins of the labor market, can inspire critiques of current labor systems and help in envisioning possible futures.