"FÖR ATT GE LIVET LITE MENING KANSKE" : En studie om arbetets betydelse för unga i arbetssamhället

The aim of this study is to explore how young people are influenced by the work society, what the subjectification process looks like and how the subject position affects their experience of them self and their agency. Moreover, this study has a discourse analytical approach as well as a critical approach to work and work society. We conducted semi-structured interviews with five youths between 18 and 24 years old. Thematic analysis and Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach have been used to analyze the data, which resulted in five themes. The themes represent different aspects of how young people form themselves as subjects of value and labour in the work society. The main findings are that there is a fear of failure included in the subject position, as well as a perceived need to work on yourself to achieve the goals that are formulated through the current neoliberal discourse of modern work society. Thus, in the modern labour market, young people must cultivate themselves as subjects of labour.