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Accession to the EU
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casualisation
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Esping-Andersen
EU directives
EU employment guidelines
European Monetary Union
European Social Policy
EuropeanTrade Union Confederation
Eurozone
flexploitation
gender equality
globalisation
Jacques Delors
Lsibon summit
neoliberalism
precarious work
privatisation
social chapter
Social Europe
unemployment benefits
work first
workfare
Product details
- ISBN 9780745320311
- Weight: 383g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 2004
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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How and why are European welfare systems and the labour market changing? How do they affect the daily lives of those facing unemployment or precarious work?
Anne Gray shows how the idea of unemployment benefits as a right is evolving into a regime closer to American 'workfare'. She explains how this policy forces the unemployed into low paid, temporary or part-time jobs associated with the new 'flexible' labour market. Drawing on unemployed people’s own accounts of their experiences - in the UK, Germany, France and Belgium - Gray illustrates the job market as seen from the dole queue. Exploring the changing nature of work in Europe, Gray reveals why is there a shortage of full-time permanent jobs, what is to be done, and what the future holds for labour market regulation in Europe.
Providing clear explanations about shifts in welfare policy, this book is ideal for trade unionists, activists and students, and makes an important contribution to wider debates on globalisation and the future of work.
Anne Gray shows how the idea of unemployment benefits as a right is evolving into a regime closer to American 'workfare'. She explains how this policy forces the unemployed into low paid, temporary or part-time jobs associated with the new 'flexible' labour market. Drawing on unemployed people’s own accounts of their experiences - in the UK, Germany, France and Belgium - Gray illustrates the job market as seen from the dole queue. Exploring the changing nature of work in Europe, Gray reveals why is there a shortage of full-time permanent jobs, what is to be done, and what the future holds for labour market regulation in Europe.
Providing clear explanations about shifts in welfare policy, this book is ideal for trade unionists, activists and students, and makes an important contribution to wider debates on globalisation and the future of work.
Anne Gray is a Senior Research Fellow in the Families and Social Capital Research Group at London's South Bank University. In 2002 she completed a three year research project on benefits and welfare to work schemes in the European Union. A researcher in the field of labour market policy since the late 1980s, her writing has included a number of academic papers and popular pamphlets on labour issues, developing critical responses to workfare and casualisation.
