Deconstructing Flexicurity and Developing Alternative Approaches - Towards New Concepts and Approaches for Employment and Social Policy (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in Sociology
Release date:	2014
First published:	2013
Editors:	Maarten Keune • Amparo Serrano
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	204
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-63426-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-63426-1
Barcode:	9780415634267

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