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Record Nr.

UNINA9910725028403321

Autore

Lehwess-Litzmann René <1981->

Titolo

Capability as a yardstick for flexicurity : using the Senian paradigm to evaluate a European policy agenda / / René Lehwess-Litzmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Göttingen : , : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 pages)

Disciplina

331.094

Soggetti

Labor policy - European Union countries

Job security - European Union countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Flexicurity is a European policy agenda seeking to increase both flexibility and security in the labour-market. This book argues that it needs a revision: Although flexicurity is set out to change the way Europeans work and live, and even though it is being justified by workers' needs, flexicurity lacks of a clear and democratically justified vision of society. Flexicurity is confronted here with Amartya Sen's capability-approach, a paradigm of well-being evaluation. How is flexicurity related to a concept of employment as part of a way of life which people have reason to value? How capability-friendly are established flexicurity-indicators? It is thus shown how the capability-approach can be used in the field of labour-market and social policy.