In Europe, work has long been a symbol of full citizenship and
today work is a fundamental goal of European social policy.
However, although every person has the 'right' to work, it is
becoming clearer all the time that unemployment is not due merely
to a lack of encouragement to exercise this right, but (at least in
part) to some deeper defects in the implementation of effective
employment policies. As a contribution to defining the nature of
these problems, this important collection of essays targets the
phenomena of multilevel governance, both vertical (European,
national, regional, local) and horizontal (administrative
institutions, trade unions, business representatives, NGOs),
showing, with detailed analysis and data, how coordination or
conflict between the various levels advances, or fails to advance,
the goals of employment policy. Regarding the EU, five EU Member
States are examined- plus, for comparative analysis, the parallel
Canadian federal model - with the authors addressing such concrete
issues as: - the impact of globalisation and Europeanisation on
employment policies; - distribution of tasks in the Open Method of
Coordination (OMC); - involvement of private and economic agents; -
the increasing significance of international political agents; -
flexicurity as an employment strategy; - the difficulty of
integrating the excluded; - coordination with education and fiscal
policies; - social inclusion from the point of view of
international human rights; and - gender 'mainstreaming' as an
essential element of the EU guarantee of gender equality. The
essays originated in a research meeting held at the Instituto
Internacional de Sociologia Juridica at Onati (Spain) in June of
2007. Some of the contributors, all employment law experts, discuss
problematic aspects of the European Employment Strategy (EES) and
its influence on the decentralization of employment policies and
related elements of social protection. Other authors concentrate on
'built-in' multilevel problems resulting from existing
constitutional and administrative structures, while a third group
focuses on substantive approaches to employment policies within
individual member states. The Bulletin contains updated versions of
all papers. In this book the degree of administrative, legal,
political, and cultural intricacy involved in a serious engagement
with multilevel governance of employment on the European model is
put on full view. As a deeply informed analysis of how the idea of
multilevel governance has played out within the political and
administrative reality of Member States, the book will prove of
enormous value to labour and employment law professionals anywhere,
as the problems identified here have a global reach.
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