Research Catalog

Title

Reconciling labour flexibility with social cohesion : facing the challenge = Concilier flexibilité du travail et cohésion sociale : un défi à relever.

Publication

Strasbourg : Council of Europe Publishing, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Council of Europe

Description

251, 271 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume on labour flexibility invites readers to question the effects of labour market institutional and organisational reforms on social cohesion. The Council of Europe suggests reconciling social cohesion with the inevitable changes wrought by globalisation, namely the reorganisation of the parameters governing competition.This reconciliation should take into account the essential political value of democratic security, to be found firstly in employment; the high social and societal cost of precariousness attests to this. However, security should not imply rigidity. It should rather translate into societal recognition of a "right to transition" which calls for co-responsibility on the part of all social actors and stakeholders.Reconciliation is more than a political duty, it is a prerequisite for the stability necessary for social sustainability. It should therefore raise awareness of the need to find new ways of fairly sharing the costs and benefits such transitions create. -- Council of Europe.

Series Statement

Trends in social cohesion ; no. 15

Uniform Title

Trends in social cohesion no. 15.

Alternative Title

• Concilier flexibilité du travail et cohésion sociale : un défi à relever
• Concilier flexibilité du travail et cohésion sociale : un défi à relever

Subject

• Labor mobility > European Union countries
• Labor market > European Union countries
• Marginality, Social > European Union countries
• Main-d'œuvre > Mobilité > Pays de l'Union européenne
• Marché du travail > Pays de l'Union européenne
• Marginalité > Pays de l'Union européenne
• European Union countries > Social policy
• Pays de l'Union européenne > Politique sociale

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in English and French printed in tête-bêche format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Gilda Farrell -- PART I. THE CHALLENGES OF LABOUR FLEXIBILITY FOR SOCIAL COHESION -- A. Flexibility, economic performance and social cohesion -- Labour market flexibility and socio-economic performance: a European perspective / Sabine Urban, Dario Velo -- From flexibility to social cohesion through finance / Pierre Salama -- B. Flexibility, job insecurity and the welfare costs -- The welfare costs of job insecurity: psychological well-being and family life / Brendan J. Burchell -- How does flexiblity affect social cohesion? The council of Europe's tree model revisited / Ton Wilthagen, Mijke Houwerzijl -- PART II. TOWARDS RECONCILIATION: ISSUES FOR BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN FLEXIBILITY AND SOCIAL COHESION -- A. The route to social cohesion flexiblity -- Different kinds of flexibility: reconciling different interests / Aris Accornero -- Flexicurity schemes / Ute Klammer -- What are the ingredients of "good" flexicurity arrangements? Some ideas for identifying factors that make for success / Sebastian Sperber -- B. Labour law and social protection in the context of labour flexibility -- Citizenship, flexibility and the diversity of approaches to activating social protection in Europe / Jean-Claude Barbier -- Changes in employment and labour law / Luigi Mariucci.

ISBN

• 9287158134
• 9789287158130

OCLC

• 64406034
• SCSB-12883641

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library