Betzelt, Sigrid
Activation and Labour Market Reforms in Europe
Part I. Introduction and Conceptual Framework
1. Activation and Labour Market Reforms in Europe: Challenges to Social Citizenship — Introduction
Silke Bothfeld, Sigrid Betzelt
2. How Do Activation Policies Affect Social Citizenship? The Issue of Autonomy
Silke Bothfeld, Sigrid Betzelt
Part II. The Universal Adult Worker Norm — Tensions between Equality and Diversity
3. Social Security Provision Targeted at Immigrants — A Forerunner for the General Change of Scandinavian Equal Citizenship? A Danish Case Study
Karen N. Breidahl
4. Relinquishing Rights? The Impact of Activation on Citizenship for Lone Parents in the UK
Sharon Wright
5. Social Citizenship and Activation in Europe: A Gendered Perspective
Marie-Thérèse Letablier, Anne Eydoux, Sigrid Betzelt
Part III. Erosion of Social Status? — Tensions between Core and Periphery
6. The Erosion of Social Status: The Case of Germany
Sigrid Betzelt, Silke Bothfeld
7. Redefining Unemployment and Employment Statuses: The Impact of Activation on Social Citizenship in France
Mathieu Béraud, Anne Eydoux
8. Chances and Pitfalls of Flexible Labour Markets: The Case of the Spanish Strategy of Labour Market Flexibility
Begoña Pérez, Miguel Laparra
9. Activation and the Limited Social Citizenship Status of Young and Female Workers: The Italian Case
Paolo R. Graziano
Part IV. Governance and Implementation — Tensions between Standardization and Individualization
10. The Local- and Street-Level Production of Social Citizenship: The Case of Dutch Social Assistance
Rik Berkel
11. Norwegian Welfare Reforms: Social Contracts and Activation Policies
Nanna Kildal, Even Nilssen
Part V. Conclusions
12. Activation Policies: Potential Enhancement and Factual Restraints of Citizens’ Autonomy
Sigrid Betzelt, Silke Bothfeld
Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Union Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics of the Welfare State, Labor Economics, Social Care, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology
- Editor
- Betzelt, Sigrid
- Bothfeld, Silke
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Work and Welfare in Europe
- Page amount
- 312 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230307636
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-33100-0