Deconstructing Flexicurity and Developing Alternative Approaches - Towards New Concepts and Approaches for Employment and Social Policy

This volume critically examines the various dimensions of the flexicurity concept and its uses in both in academics and politics, outlining various alternative and innovative approaches towards conceptualizing and analyzing employment and social policy in contemporary European societies.

List of contents

1. The Power to Name and Struggles over Meaning: The Concept of Flexicurity Maarten Keune and Amparo Serrano 2. Class Relations and Labour Market Reforms Colin Crouch 3. From Flexicurity to Social Employment Regimes Carlos Prieto 4. Inequality as a Central Component in the Redefinition of Security: The Case of Gender Maria Jepsen 5. Beyond Flexibility: Active Securities for Flexible Employment Relationship Günther Schmid 6. Labour, Capabilities and Situated Democracy Robert Salais 7. From Flexicurity to Capabilities: In Search of Professional Development Bénédicte Zimmerman 8. Life-First Welfare, and the Scope for a "Eudemonic Ethic" of Social Security Hartley Dean 9. Quality of Employment: An Alternative to Flexicurity? Dominique Méda

About the author

Maarten Keune is Professor of Social Security and Labour Relations and Co-Director of the Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Amparo Serrano is Professor of Social Psychology and Sociology at the University Complutense of Madrid.

Summary

This volume critically examines the various dimensions of the flexicurity concept and its uses in both in academics and politics, outlining various alternative and innovative approaches towards conceptualizing and analyzing employment and social policy in contemporary European societies.

Product details

• Authors: Maarten Serrano Keune
• Assisted by: Maarten Keune (Editor), Amparo Serrano (Editor), Serrano Amparo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.2014
• EAN: 9780415634267
• ISBN: 978-0-415-63426-7
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Business & Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social issues & processes, Sociology: work & labour, Social and ethical issues, Sociology: work and labour, Welfare and benefit systems