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In this article we analyze a 600,000-word corpus comprised of policy statements produced within supranational, national, state, and local legislatures about the nature and causes of (un)employment. We identify significant rhetorical and discursive features deployed by third-sector (un)employment policy authors that function to extend their legislative grasp to encompass the most intimate aspects of human association. We focus on functional aspects of third-sector discourses currently being deployed to redefine what it means to be a skilled worker, what it means to be unemployed, the meaning of welfare, and the meaning of work more generally. More broadly, by identifying these elements of third-sector discourses, we also identify their historical roots and social significance. Under scrutiny, the skilled-labor discourses of third-sector policy reveal that the object of the policies is to divest public and private institutions of particular burdens, including the unemployed. Third-sector and skilled discourses seek to redefine social welfare program, relationships between individuals, families, businesses, communities, and the state, the meaning of work, and, most of all, the meaning of unemployment so that it would ideally no longer exist as a concept. If this last objective is achieved, the problem of unemployment is ideally cured, thus realizing the technocratic function expected of policy makers to solve extensive social problems, in this case by defining them out of existence. © Walter de Gruyter

Third-sector discourses and the future of (un)employment: Skilled labor, new technologies, and the meaning of work