Deconstructing Flexicurity and Developing Alternative Approaches : Towards New Concepts and Approaches for Employment and Social Policy

Maarten Keune

ISBN 10: 113829134X / ISBN 13: 9781138291348

Verlag: Routledge, 2016

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 critical discussion of the flexicurity concept, the theories upon which it is built and the ideas that it transmits about work, unemployment and social justice. It shows that flexicurity fosters the further individualization of social protection, an increase in precariousness and the further weakening of labour in relation to capital. The authors present a series of alternative theoretical, normative and policy approaches that provide due attention to the collective and political dimension of vulnerability and allow for the development of new societal projects based on alternative values and assumptions.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781138291348

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Deconstructing Flexicurity and Developing Alternative Approaches : Towards New Concepts and Approaches for Employment and Social Policy
• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 113829134X
• ISBN-13: 9781138291348
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 229B x 152 H x 12 T Millimeter Breite: 229 mm, Höhe: 152 mm, Tiefe: 12 mm
• Gewicht: 321 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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 critical discussion of the flexicurity concept, the theories upon which it is built and the ideas that it transmits about work, unemployment and social justice. It shows that flexicurity fosters the further individualization of social protection, an increase in precariousness and the further weakening of labour in relation to capital. The authors present a series of alternative theoretical, normative and policy approaches that provide due attention to the collective and political dimension of vulnerability and allow for the development of new societal projects based on alternative values and assumptions.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.