The Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Policy Responses and Collective Action

by Giugni,Marco; Giugni,Marco

• ISBN13: 9780754673484
• ISBN10: 0754673480
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book offers a state-of the-art discussion of the political issues surrounding unemployment in Europe. Its unique combination offers both a policy and institutional perspective, whilst studying the viewpoint of individual civil society members engaging in collective action on the issue of joblessness. It is the result of Marco Giugni's three year cross-national comparative research project, financed by the European Commission, united with hand picked contributions from invited experts. Throughout his study he focuses on how the EU approaches national unemployment; the main national differences in talk about unemployment and unemployment policy; and how the representatives of the unemployed produce and coordinate demands in relation to unemployment policy. This book contains a number of genuinely cross-national chapters along with sections on specific national cases, namely the UK, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Sweden.

Table of Contents

Introduction: State and civil society responses to unemployment: welfare, conditionality, and collective action

Policy Responses: Unemployment and social protection

Adapting employment policies to post-industrial labor market risks

Work and welfare: the rights and responsibilities of unemployment in the UK

The promises of labor: the practices of activating unemployment policies in Switzerland

Collective Action: Trade Unions and the unemployed in the inter war period and the 1980s in Britain

Belgian trade unions, the unemployed and the growth of unemployment

Participation in Irish organizations in aid of the unemployed

Conceptions of the welfare state and political opportunities for claim-making in the unemployment political field, Marco Giugni, Michel Berclaz and Katharina Fnglister

The hidden hand of the ERuropean Union and the silent Europeanization of public debates on unemployment: the case of the European Employment Strategy

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Excerpts

This book offers a state-of the-art discussion of the political issues surrounding unemployment in Europe. It is unique in offering both a policy and institutional perspective and in studying the perspective of individual members of civil society who engage in collective action related to the issue of unemployment.