Beyond Marginality?
Social Movements of Social Security Claimants in the European Union
Published on 24. February 1998
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-1-85972-636-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume describes and analyzes the organization of social security claimants and their position in the field of force of the national welfare state. The research covers six European countries representing a diversity of welfare state regimes: the UK, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. The strengths and weaknesses of these organizations are analyzed from a variety of theoretical perspectives such as the opportunity structures of welfare states and national political relations, the fragmentation of social movement along ideological and categorical lines, and the problems of organizing social groups.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
figures, tables, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 222 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85972-636-5 (9781859726365)
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Content
Social security claimants and Europe, Harry Coenen; Strategies for survival - poor people's movement in Britain, Kevin Dixon; Collective action and welfare recipients in Britain, Paul Bagguley; The collective action of welfare recipients in Europe - the situation in France, Jean-Noel Chopart et al; Projects for the unemployed in Germany, Friedhelm Wolski-Prenger; No organization, no services, no money - the poor and the excluded from welfare in Italy, Yuri Kazepov, Giustina Orientale Caputo; Representing the interests of social security claimants and welfare recipients in the Netherlands, Rik van Berkel, Ruud Vlek; Collective action by clients and claimants in Norway, Rune Sander Halvorsen, Bjorn Hvinden; Collective action and everyday resistance, Bill Jordan. Epilogue, Rik van Berkel, Ruuk Vlek.