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Recent years have witnessed major changes to the workplace across
Europe. The speed of these changes requires constant monitoring and
reappraisal. In this book, recent trends are analyzed and their
consequences discussed, within a socio-historical context which
also reveals underlying patterns of continuity. The trends analyzed
include: the presence of high rates of endemic unemployment and
underemployment, particularly amongst the young the growth of
insecure and precarious employment sweeping changes to the
regulation of and organization of work the diminution in the
availability of manual work and the growth of white-collar
service-sector jobs the growing participation of women in paid
employment the introduction of new organizational forms and new
forms of management the accelerating use of IT the growth in demand
for educational and vocational qualifications by employers the
increasing influence of European legislation on work, retirement,
health, safety, etc the growing importance of voluntary-sector work
The contributors to the volume present both primary research and a
wide-ranging survey and analysis of recent major contributions in
the field. Detailed empirical material is included from Belgium,
Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the EU
more generally. Thus, the book aims to provide a current overview
of the nature of work from a pan-European perspective, illuminated
by up-to-the-minute field research.
Recent years have witnessed major changes to the workplace across
Europe. The speed of these changes requires constant monitoring and
reappraisal. In this book, recent trends are analyzed and their
consequences discussed, within a socio-historical context which
also reveals underlying patterns of continuity. The trends analyzed
include: the presence of high rates of endemic unemployment and
underemployment, particularly amongst the young the growth of
insecure and precarious employment sweeping changes to the
regulation of and organization of work the diminution in the
availability of manual work and the growth of white-collar
service-sector jobs the growing participation of women in paid
employment the introduction of new organizational forms and new
forms of management the accelerating use of IT the growth in demand
for educational and vocational qualifications by employers the
increasing influence of European legislation on work, retirement,
health, safety, etc the growing importance of voluntary-sector work
The contributors to the volume present both primary research and a
wide-ranging survey and analysis of recent major contributions in
the field. Detailed empirical material is included from Belgium,
Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the EU
more generally. Thus, the book aims to provide a current overview
of the nature of work from a pan-European perspective, illuminated
by up-to-the-minute field research.
Exclusion has come to hold a prominent place in the political
discourse of all governments in the European Union and in the
European Commission itself. As such, it figures importantly in
various research agencies' funding priorities attracting academics
to develop and conduct major research programmes. But what does it
mean? This book analyzes the different meanings the term exclusion
has come to convey and surveys a wide variety of actual
applications in different European countries.
Exclusion has come to hold a prominent place in the political
discourse of all governments in the European Union and in the
European Commission itself. As such, it figures importantly in
various research agencies' funding priorities attracting academics
to develop and conduct major research programmes. But what does it
mean? This book analyzes the different meanings the term exclusion
has come to convey and surveys a wide variety of actual
applications in different European countries.
In instituting its prospective studies the European Cultural Founda
tion has to some extent gone against tradition. Until now those who
were deeply committed to the idea of a European Community looked
into the past rather than into the future for bases on which the
com munity could be integrated. However, if we want a European
society to become a reality it must be built on the basis of shared
fundamental values. The majority of publications dealing with a
unified or inte grated Europe have until now accepted that this
foundation guarantee ing the stability of a future European society
should be found in certain common elements of the history of the
European nations. The futurological studies instituted by the
European Cultural Foun dation have not rejected this mode of
approach outright. They have respected the historical framework
indispensable to any futurological undertaking. But the research
and discussions of the groups working within the framework of Plan
Europe 2000 offer increasing support to the conviction expressed by
Gaston Deurinck in the first words of his introduction to the
present study: "The future does not exist .. thf> future is to
be created, and before being created, it must be conceived, it must
be invented, and finally willed" .."
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