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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814731903321

Titolo

Regulating new forms of employment : local experiments and social innovation in Europe / / edited by Ida Regalia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon [England] ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2006

ISBN

1-280-29033-1

9786610290338

0-203-00831-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare

Altri autori (Persone)

RegaliaIda <1946->

Disciplina

331.12/042/094

Soggetti

Manpower policy - Europe

Employment (Economic theory)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

New forms of employment and new problems of regulation / Ida Regalia -- Flexible arrangements within companies : strengths and weaknesses / Ida Regalia -- Building local institutional arrangements for flexicurity in France / Olivier Meriaux and Laurent Duclos -- Non-standard employment : experiments in regulation at the local level in Germany / Stefani Scherer -- Between institutionalized concertation and experimentation : the regulation of new forms of employment in Lombardy / Gabriele Ballarino -- Inclusion strategies : regulating non-standard employment in the 'Third Italy' / Franco Bortolotti and Mario Giaccone -- Catalonia : the difficulty of transferring locally concerted solutions into firms / Andreu Lope and Francesc Gibert -- The West Midlands : a mixture of promising and faltering steps / Rachael McIlroy and Paul Marginson -- What regulation for the new forms of employment? / Ida Regalia.

Sommario/riassunto

Using a comparative framework, this new volume focuses on how non-standard employment can be regulated in very different social, political and institutional settings. After surveying these new forms of work and the new demands for labour-market regulation, the authors identify possible solutions among local-level actors and provide a detailed analysis of how firms assess the advantages and disadvantages of



flexible forms of employment. The authors provide six detailed case studies to examine the successes and failures of experimental approaches and social innovation in various region