Transforming European Employment Policy
Labour Market Transitions and the Promotion of Capability
Published on 29. February 2012
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-84980-256-7 (ISBN)
Description
Since the mid 1990s, the focus of European employment and social policy has shifted from protection to promotion. This book provides a timely analysis of this new form of governance, and the new forms of policy delivery and audit which accompany it. The limitations of the current approach became particularly apparent during the financial crisis of 2008, and it has now reached a turning point. The book offers a new coherent European reform agenda that views easing transitions in employment and promoting the development of individual and collective capabilities as cornerstones. The contributing authors focus on vocational training, life course policies, reflexive labor law and social insurance, from theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives.
Transforming European Employment Policy will be of great benefit to policy makers as well as those researching or studying European law, labor law, industrial relations, political science, social policy or international business.
Contributors: P. Auer, J.-M. Bonvin, C. Crouch, S. Deakin, C. Didry, B. Gazier, P. Kaps, R. Rogowski, R. Salais, G. Schmid, H. Schutz, N. Whiteside, P. Wotschack, B. Zimmermann
Transforming European Employment Policy will be of great benefit to policy makers as well as those researching or studying European law, labor law, industrial relations, political science, social policy or international business.
Contributors: P. Auer, J.-M. Bonvin, C. Crouch, S. Deakin, C. Didry, B. Gazier, P. Kaps, R. Rogowski, R. Salais, G. Schmid, H. Schutz, N. Whiteside, P. Wotschack, B. Zimmermann
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84980-256-7 (9781849802567)
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Persons
Edited by Ralf Rogowski, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick, UK, Robert Salais, Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes, and former Director, CNRS Research Centre, Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de L'Economie, Cachan, France and Noel Whiteside, Professor of Comparative Public Policy, University of Warwick, UK
Content
Contents:
1. Introduction
Robert Salais, Ralf Rogowski and Noel Whiteside
PART I: SECURING TRANSITIONS AND PROMOTING CAPABILITIES
Section 1.1. Securing Transitions through Flexicurity Policies, Placement Services and Working-time Accounts
2. Social and Labour Market Reforms: Four Agendas
Peter Auer and Bernard Gazier
3. Transitional Labour Markets and Flexicurity: Managing Social Risks Over the Life Course
Guenther Schmid
4. Privatisation of Placement Services in Light of the Transitional Labour Market Approach
Petra Kaps and Holger Schuetz
5. Working-time Options Over the Life Course: Challenges and Company Practices
Philip Wotschack
Section 1.2. Promoting Capabilities
6. Making Employees' Pathways More Secure: A Critical Examination of the Company's Responsibility
Benedicte Zimmermann
7. Reframing the Issue of Responsibility in Labour Market Activation Policies
Jean-Michel Bonvin
8. Creating Collective Capability: Historical Perspectives on Co-ordinating Public Action
Noel Whiteside
PART II: WHAT FUTURE FOR EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT POLICIES?
9. Occupational Structures and Social Models in European Societies
Colin Crouch
10. Corporate Social Responsibility and Employment: A Plurality of Configurations
Claude Didry
11. Reflexive Labour Law, Capabilities and the Future of Social Europe
Simon Deakin and Ralf Rogowski
12. Employment and the Social Dimension of Europe: What Constitutive Conventions of the Market?
Robert Salais
Index
1. Introduction
Robert Salais, Ralf Rogowski and Noel Whiteside
PART I: SECURING TRANSITIONS AND PROMOTING CAPABILITIES
Section 1.1. Securing Transitions through Flexicurity Policies, Placement Services and Working-time Accounts
2. Social and Labour Market Reforms: Four Agendas
Peter Auer and Bernard Gazier
3. Transitional Labour Markets and Flexicurity: Managing Social Risks Over the Life Course
Guenther Schmid
4. Privatisation of Placement Services in Light of the Transitional Labour Market Approach
Petra Kaps and Holger Schuetz
5. Working-time Options Over the Life Course: Challenges and Company Practices
Philip Wotschack
Section 1.2. Promoting Capabilities
6. Making Employees' Pathways More Secure: A Critical Examination of the Company's Responsibility
Benedicte Zimmermann
7. Reframing the Issue of Responsibility in Labour Market Activation Policies
Jean-Michel Bonvin
8. Creating Collective Capability: Historical Perspectives on Co-ordinating Public Action
Noel Whiteside
PART II: WHAT FUTURE FOR EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT POLICIES?
9. Occupational Structures and Social Models in European Societies
Colin Crouch
10. Corporate Social Responsibility and Employment: A Plurality of Configurations
Claude Didry
11. Reflexive Labour Law, Capabilities and the Future of Social Europe
Simon Deakin and Ralf Rogowski
12. Employment and the Social Dimension of Europe: What Constitutive Conventions of the Market?
Robert Salais
Index