Deconstructing Flexicurity and Developing Alternative Approaches

Towards New Concepts and Approaches for Employment and Social Policy
Herausgeber: Keune, Maarten; Serrano, Amparo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9780415634267
• ISBN-10: 0415634261
• Artikelnr.: 35456199

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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