Social Rights in Europe in an Age of Austerity

This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain), it offers an account of recent reforms to social welfare and the attempts to resist them through litigation.

List of contents

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Table of cases
PART I Introduction
1 Social rights, the Welfare State and European austerity
Stefano Civitarese Matteucci and Simon Halliday
PART II European case studies
2 France
Diane Roman
3 Germany
Ulrike Lembke
4 Italy
Alessandra Albanese
5 Spain
Dolores Utrilla
6 UK
Jed Meers
7 Austerity, conditionality and litigation in six European nations
Michael Adler and Lars Inge Terum
PART III Theoretical discussions
8 Should a minimum income be unconditional?
Stuart White
9 The social dimension of fundamental rights in times of crisis
Francesco Ferraro
10 Social rights and welfare reform in times of economic crisis
Jeff King
11 The political economy of European social rights
Emilios Christodoulidis and Marco Goldoni
12 Economic crisis and territorial assymetrical effects on the guarantee of social rights within the European Economic and Monteary Union (EMU)
Francesco Bilancia
13 Free movement of persons and transnational solidarity in the European Union (EU): a melancholic eulogy
Stefano Giubboni
Index

About the author

Stefano Civitarese Matteucci is Professor of Public Law at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.


Simon Halliday is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of York, UK, and Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Summary

This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain), it offers an account of recent reforms to social welfare and the attempts to resist them through litigation.

Product details

• Authors: Stefano Halliday Civitarese Matteucci
• Assisted by: Stefano Civitarese Matteucci (Editor), Simon Halliday (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138700598
• ISBN: 978-1-138-70059-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Critical Studies in Jurisprudence
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Social issues & processes, Social Law, Social and ethical issues, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Social law and Medical law