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Over the past twenty years European labour markets have seen the
simultaneous rise of unemployment and working-time flexibility.
While unemployment generates widespread concern about social
exclusion, the reorganisation of flexible working-time has been
greeted with more ambivalence. The concept of Transitional Labour
Markets (TLMs) is an attempt to address and analyse the factors and
policies that can prevent high levels of unemployment and exclusion
from paid work.This book addresses three key questions: Can
working-time flexibility integrate more people into paid
employment? Can working-time flexibility prevent unemployment? Is
it possible for the barriers between core and peripheral employment
to become more permeable in the way advocated by the concept of
TLMs? Drawing on both quantitative longitudinal panel study data
and qualitative case study material, the authors (whose expertise
is drawn from the fields of economics, sociology and law) provide
an original perspective on the nature and implications of TLMs in
Spain, Sweden, Ireland, Britain, Germany, France and The
Netherlands. This will be essential reading for both academics and
policymakers in the field of labour market policy.
Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World aims to go
beyond the traditional criticism in comparative analysis. It wants
to shed new light on the question of comparing as a form of
categorizing. In this perspective, three relevant dimensions to
question the naturalized categories of comparison are mobilized:
ethnocentrism, the nation, and academic disciplines. Based on
original empirical work, the volume proposes to use comparative
categories by mixing and shifting the analytical perspectives. It
brings together contributions that come to terms with the
historicity of the comparative method in the social sciences. It
eventually deals with the key issue of comparability of various
cases, in the enlarged context of a globalizing world. Contributors
are: Anna Amelina, Camille Boullier, Catherine Cavalin, Serge
Ebersold, Andreas Eckert, Mouhamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, Isabel
Georges, Olivier Giraud, Aissa Kadri, Wiebke Keim, Michel
Lallement, Marie Mercat-Bruns, Luis Felipe Murillo, Kiran Klaus
Patel, Lea Renard, Ferruccio Ricciardi, Paul-Andre Rosental, Pablo
Salazar-Jaramillo, Stephanie Tawa-Lama, Nikola Tietze, Tania
Toffanin, Michel Vincent and Benedicte Zimmermann.
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