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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810544203321

Titolo

Resocialising Europe in a time of crisis / / edited by Nicola Countouris and Mark Freedland [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-50285-3

1-139-89340-8

1-107-50124-5

1-107-50663-8

1-107-51700-1

1-107-49728-0

1-107-50393-0

1-107-30073-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 525 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

331.12/042094

Soggetti

Labor policy - Europe

Labor - Europe

Labor laws and legislation - Europe

Equality - Europe

Europe Social conditions 21st century

Europe Economic conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part 1. Social Europe and the crisis of idea(l)s -- part 2. Addressing precariousness in work -- part 3. Reinventing the collective dimensions of social Europe.

Sommario/riassunto

Terms such as 'Social Europe' and 'European Social Model' have long resided in the political and regulatory lexicon of European integration. But in recent years, and in spite of the adoption of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the EU social profile has entered a profound period of crisis. The ECJ judgments of Viking and Laval exemplify the unresolved tension between the EU's strong market imperatives and its fragile social aspirations while the ongoing economic crisis, while the



various 'bail out' packages are producing a constant retrenchment of social rights. The status quo is one in which workers appear to shoulder most of the risks attendant on making and executing arrangements for the doing of work. Chapters in this book advocate a reversal of this trend in favour of fair mutualization, so as to disperse these risks and share them more equitably between employers, the state, and society at large.