Reinventing social solidarity across Europe [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Ellison Marion
• Pubblicazione: Bristol, : Policy, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.094
• Soggetto topico: Europe -- Economic integration -- Social aspects; Group identity -- Europe; Solidarity -- Europe; Business & Economics; Sociology & Social History; Social Sciences; Economic Theory; Social Conditions; Gender & Ethnic Studies; Ethnic & Race Studies
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Economic integration Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): FarnsworthKevin; Irving, Zoë M
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Reinventing Social Solidarity across Europe; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface and acknowledgements; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction: social solidarity in Europe: the fourth pillar; Globalisation and social solidarity in Europe: continuity and loss; Situating theories of social solidarity within European integration; Europe on the edge; The aims of this book; 2. The concept of solidarity in the European integration discourse; 3. Solidarity at the margins of European society: linking the European social model to local conditions and solidarities ; IntroductionSolidarity and social capital in the Czech society; The approach to social inclusion; Conclusions; 4. Towards a globalisation of solidarity?; Introduction; The concept of solidarity; Globalisation; Individual solidarity and globalisation; Institutionalised solidarity and globalisation; Conclusions; 5. Contested terrains and emerging solidarities within childcare law, policy and practice in Europe; Introduction; Childcare law, inequality and the politics of social solidarity; Co-determining local and transnational solidarity; Conclusion ; 6. Embedding European identity in context: changing social solidarities in EuropeIntroduction: setting the context; Racing to the bottom or moving to the top?; The poverty of representation and the recovery of politics; Concluding thoughts; 7. Intra-European energy solidarity at the core of the European integration process: future possibilities and current constraints; Introduction; Energy, security and solidarity; Intra-European energy solidarity reflected in policies and networks; Conclusions and perspectives: will the global crisis speed up the realisation process? ; 8. Social solidarities and immigration integration policies in South-Eastern EuropeCommunist solidarity: imposed, but impossible; Post-communist solidarity: marginalised, but possible; Reinventing solidarity: new relations in a new field; Solidarity versus security; Conclusion: the new topoi of solidarity; 9. Normative power Europe: a tool for advancing social solidarity within and beyond Europe?; Introduction; Normative power Europe: the concept; Critiquing NPE: Eurocentrism and hypocrisy?; The synergy of norms and interests: NPE and international solidarity (or the lack of it); Conclusion ; 10. Social solidarity in post-socialist countriesTheoretical starting points; The notion of Central and Eastern Europe; The Inform-bureau crisis8 and the emergence of self-management; Socio-economic transition in the Eastern-Central Europe region; Selected cases of the new solidarity; Conclusion; 11. Trade unions, NGOs and social solidarity in Romania1; Social solidarity; Trade unions, NGOs and solidarity; Contextual factors and research questions; The data and its limitations; Dimensions of solidarity in Romania; The prospects for European solidarity ; Membership in trade unions and NGOs and feelings of solidarity in Romania
• Sommario/riassunto: This valuable collection is the first to identify how social solidarity across Europe is being re-invented from below and redefined from above.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reinventing social solidarity across Europe
• ISBN: 1-4473-0555-8; 1-283-32136-X; 9786613321367; 1-84742-728-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457650203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II