The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe

1. The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: An Introduction
Marco Giugni

Part I. Context and Opportunities

2. Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and Claim Making in the Field of Unemployment Politics
Manlio Cinalli, Marco Giugni

3. The Protest on Unemployment: Forms and Opportunities
Donatella Porta

4. Networks and Political Contention over Unemployment: A Comparison of Britain, Germany, and Switzerland
Manlio Cinalli, Katharina Füglister

Part II. Actors and Dynamics

5. A Precarious Balance of Interests: Unions and the Unemployed in Europe
Annulla Linders, Marina Kalander

6. The Role of Civil Society Actors in the Contentious Politics of Unemployment
Simone Baglioni

7. Transcending Marginalization: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France, Germany, and Italy in a Comparative Perspective
Simone Baglioni, Britta Baumgarten, Didier Chabanet, Christian Lahusen

Part III. Unemployment Politics and the European Union

8. Globalization and the Contentious Politics of Unemployment: Towards Denationalization and Convergence?
Christian Lahusen, Marco Giugni, Michel Berclaz

9. Europeanization and the EU Supranational Multiorganizational Field of Unemployment: Elite-Dominance or New Opportunities?
Paul Statham, Manlio Cinalli

10. When the Unemployed Challenge the European Union: The European Marches as a Mode of Externalization of Protest
Didier Chabanet

11. The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Some Conclusions
Marco Giugni

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, European Culture, Sociology of Work, Politics of the Welfare State, Sociology, general, Political Science