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Wage and Welfare

New Perspectives on Employment and Social Rights in Europe

by Bernadette Clasquin (Volume editor) Nathalie Moncel (Volume editor) Mark Harvey (Volume editor) Bernard Friot (Volume editor)
©2004 Edited Collection 212 Pages

Summary

This book presents an original multidisciplinary conceptual framework for the analysis of the processes of construction/transformation of workers’ social rights. The framework was developed by taking an analysis of employment and social protection in the Latin European countries as starting-point, and thus offers an innovative alternative to the dominant approaches. It takes account of the institutional forms determining employees’ resource flows and associated rights, and introduces a new analytical category of «resource regimes». Four spheres are identified for the observation of recent resource regime changes: employment systems, public policy frameworks, social hierarchies and industrial relations systems. The various chapters explore how each of these spheres participates in the institution of social rights over resources, and identify key vehicles of change such as transformations in forms of employment, labour market policies, pension reforms, the swing to a logic of competencies, social pacts, and the processes involved in the construction of the European Union. The book brings to the fore the dynamic relation between employment, wages and social rights and aims to contribute to current debates on social protection reforms and employment policies implemented at both national and European levels.

Details

Pages
212
Publication Year
2004
ISBN (Softcover)
9789052012148
Language
English
Keywords
Social Rights Social Security, Wellfare Politics Sociology Sozial rights in europe
Published
Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2004, 2006. 212 pp., 3 tables

Biographical notes

Bernadette Clasquin (Volume editor) Nathalie Moncel (Volume editor) Mark Harvey (Volume editor) Bernard Friot (Volume editor)

The Editors: Bernadette Clasquin, labour sociologist at the Groupe de Recherche sur l’Éducation et l’Emploi (GREE), Université Nancy 2, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS (France) and Nathalie Moncel, labour economist at the Centre d’Études de l’Emploi, Paris (France) have jointly coordinated the network since 1997 and were chief editors. Mark Harvey, political economist, senior researcher fellow at the ESRC Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester (United Kingdom) and Bernard Friot, Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris X-Nanterre (France), member of the Travail et Mobilités-CNRS labour research group, played a central role in the preparatory scientific debates laying the groundwork for the publication.

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