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Unsocial Europe: Social Protection Or Flexploitation?
Anne Gray
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Description for Unsocial Europe: Social Protection Or Flexploitation?
Paperback. A substantial contribution to debates about 'globalisation' and the future of work for trade unionists, unemployed activists and students. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1D; JKSB; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
How and why are European welfare systems and the labour market changing? How do they affect the daily lives of those facing unemployment or precarious work?
Anne Gray shows how the idea of unemployment benefits as a right is evolving into a regime closer to American 'workfare'. She explains how this policy forces the unemployed into low paid, temporary or part-time jobs associated with the new 'flexible' labour market. Drawing on unemployed people’s own accounts of their experiences - in the UK, Germany, France and Belgium - Gray illustrates the job market as seen from the ... Read more
How and why are European welfare systems and the labour market changing? How do they affect the daily lives of those facing unemployment or precarious work?
Anne Gray shows how the idea of unemployment benefits as a right is evolving into a regime closer to American 'workfare'. She explains how this policy forces the unemployed into low paid, temporary or part-time jobs associated with the new 'flexible' labour market. Drawing on unemployed people’s own accounts of their experiences - in the UK, Germany, France and Belgium - Gray illustrates the job market as seen from the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745320311
SKU
V9780745320311
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About Anne Gray
Anne Gray is a Senior Research Fellow in the Families and Social Capital Research Group at London's South Bank University. In 2002 she completed a three year research project on benefits and welfare to work schemes in the European Union. A researcher in the field of labour market policy since the late 1980s, her writing has included a number of ... Read more
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