Deconstructing flexicurity and developing alternative approaches: towards new concepts and approaches for employment and social policy

"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 increa...

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Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Abingdon 2014
Routledge
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19117697124919358799-Deconstructing-flexicurity-and.htm
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description "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."
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physical XII, 203 p.
Paper
publishDate 2014
publisher Abingdon
Routledge
spellingShingle employment
social policy
social protection
flexicurity
Deconstructing flexicurity and developing alternative approaches: towards new concepts and approaches for employment and social policy
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title Deconstructing flexicurity and developing alternative approaches: towards new concepts and approaches for employment and social policy
topic employment
social policy
social protection
flexicurity
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19117697124919358799-Deconstructing-flexicurity-and.htm