Deconstructing flexicurity and developing alternative approaches :
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[Book]
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towards new concepts and approaches for employment and social policy /
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edited by Maarten Keune and Amparo Serrano.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York, NY :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xii, 203 pages .)
SERIES
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Routledge advances in sociology ;
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122
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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List of figures -- List of tables -- The power to name and struggles over meaning: the concept of flexicurity / Maarten Keune and Amparo Serrano -- Class relations and labour market reforms / Colin Crouch -- From flexicurity to social employment regimes / Carlos Prieto -- Inequality as a central component in the redefinition of security : the case of gender / Maria Jepsen -- Beyond flexibility : active securities for flexible employment relationship / Günther Schmid -- Labour, capabilities and situated democracy / Robert Salais -- From flexicurity to capabilities : in search of professional development / Bénédicte Zimmerman -- Life-first welfare, and the scope for a "eudemonic ethic" of social security / Hartley Dean -- Quality of employment : an alternative to flexicurity? / Dominique Méda -- Contributors -- Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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In recent years, the concept of flexicurity has come to occupy a central place in political and academic debates regarding employment and social policy. It fosters a view in which the need for continuously increasing flexibility is the basic assumption, and the understanding of security increasingly moves from social protection to self-insurance or individual adaptability. Moreover, it rejects the traditional contradictions between flexibility and security, blending the two into a single notion and thus depoliticizing the relationships between capital and labour. This volume provides a crit.