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Book SynopsisChanging labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship readdresses the question of how full citizenship may be preserved and developed in the face of enduring labour market pressures. It: clarifies the relationship between changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship; discusses possible ways in which the spill-over effect from labour market marginality to loss of citizenship can be prevented; specifies this problem in relation to the young, older people, men and women and immigrants; offers theoretical and conceptual definitions of citizenship as a new, alternative approach to empirical analyses of labour market marginalisation and its consequences; highlights the lessons to be learned from differing approaches in European countries.
Trade Review"... a useful and informative book, which addresses some of the key social policy issues of the day." Work, Employment and Society
"... students of comparative European social policy will find this a useful source book." Journal of Social Policy
"A state-of-the-art account of the most pressing social policy issue in European countries: employment and unemployment. Views of experts from British, Scandinavian and Continental welfare state traditions add up to a truly European perspective." Lutz Leisering, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Citizenship, changing labour markets and welfare policies: an introduction Jørgen Goul Andersen and Per H. Jensen; Internationalisation and the labour market of the European Union Peter Plougmann; Changing interactions between policies and citizenship: Citizenship and changing welfare states Ruth Lister; Work and citizenship: unemployment and unemployment policies in Denmark, 1980-2000 Jørgen Goul Andersen; New institutional forms of welfare production: some implications for citizenship Willem Trommel and Bert de Vroom; The cause and effect of welfare policies on citizenship: Unemployment, welfare policies and citizenship: different paths in Western Europe Jørgen Goul Andersen and Knut Halvorsen; Youth unemployment, welfare and political participation: a comparative study of six countries Torild Hammer; Ethnicity, racism and the labour market: a European perspective Gary Craig; From externalisation to integration of older workers: institutional changes at the end of the worklife Bert de Vroom and Anne Marie Guillemard; Movements by the unemployed in France and social protection: the Fonds d'urgence sociale experience Denis Bouget; Changing welfare states and labour markets in the context of European gender arrangements Birgit Pfau-Effinger; Conclusions: A second order reflection on the concepts of inclusion and exclusion Asmund Born and Per H. Jensen; Concluding remarks Jørgen Goul Andersen and Per H. Jensen.
