Activation Policies For The Unemployed The Right To Work And The Duty To Work

Author : Elise Dermine,Daniel Dumont
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 2875742329

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Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work by Elise Dermine,Daniel Dumont Pdf

Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures often induce a strengthening of the conditions that must be met in order to receive social benefits. <BR> It is in this well known context that the authors gathered in this book decided to take a closer look at the relationship between activation policies for the unemployed and the right and the duty to work. If activation measures are likely to increase transitions towards the labour market, we can also make the assumption that they may, particularly when they are marked with the seal of coercion, hinder or dramatically reduce the right to freely chosen work. In such circumstances, the realisation of the -right to work-, which is often stated to be the aim of those who promote activation, tends in practice to be reduced to an increasing pressure being exerted on the unemployed. In this case, isn't it actually the duty to work that is particularly reinforced? <BR> After an historical and philosophical perspective on the issue, this assumption is confronted with the developments observed in the United States and in France, and then with the guidelines laid down in international human rights instruments. What follows is a discussion of two alternatives to the dominant activation model: the basic income guarantee and the employment guarantee."

Author : Eleveld, Anja,Kampen, Thomas
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447340140

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Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare States by Eleveld, Anja,Kampen, Thomas Pdf

With welfare to work programmes under intense scrutiny, this book reviews a wide range of existing and future policies across Europe. Seventeen contributors provide case studies and legal, sociological and philosophical perspectives from around the continent, building a rich picture of welfare to work policies and their impact. They show how many schemes do not adequately address social rights and lived experiences, and consider alternatives based on theories of non-domination. For anyone interested in the justice of welfare to work, this book is an important step along the path towards more fair and adequate legislation.

Author : Christina Binder,Jane A. Hofbauer,Flávia Piovesan,Amaya Úbeda de Torres
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788972130

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Research Handbook on International Law and Social Rights by Christina Binder,Jane A. Hofbauer,Flávia Piovesan,Amaya Úbeda de Torres Pdf

This comprehensive Research Handbook offers a comparative overview of the history, nature and current status of social rights at the universal and regional level. Tracing their evolution from rather modest beginnings, to becoming the category of rights responding most accurately to the 21st century’s policy objectives of poverty eradication and equitable resource allocation, this Research Handbook assesses the mechanisms used to enhance the implementation and enforcement of social rights.

Author : Barry Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781447340010

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Rethinking Poverty by Barry Knight Pdf

Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence In our society, a wealthy minority flourish, while around one-fifth experience chronic poverty and many people on middle incomes fear for their futures. Social policy has failed to find answers to these problems and there is now a demand for a new narrative to enable us to escape from the crisis in our society. With the aim of ending poverty, this book argues that we need to start with the society we want, rather than framing poverty as a problem to be solved. It calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing aust.

Author : Stefano Civitarese Matteucci,Simon Halliday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351791427

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SOCIAL RIGHTS IN EUROPE IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY by Stefano Civitarese Matteucci,Simon Halliday Pdf

This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting in the first instance five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), it offers an account of recent reforms to social welfare and the attempts to resist them through litigation. The case studies are then used as a foundation for theory-building about social rights. This second group of chapters develops theory along two complementary lines: first, they explore the dynamics between social rights, public law, poverty and welfare in times of economic crisis; second, they consider the particular significance of the European context for articulations of, and struggles over, social rights. Employing a range and depth of expertise across Europe, the book constitutes a timely and highly significant contribution to socio-legal scholarship about the character and resilience of social rights in our national and regional constitutional settings.

Author : Werner Eichhorst,Otto Kaufmann,Regina Konle-Seidl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540774358

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Bringing the Jobless into Work? by Werner Eichhorst,Otto Kaufmann,Regina Konle-Seidl Pdf

This volume provides an up-to-date overview of activation strategies in unemployment benefit systems and social assistance in selected European countries and the United States. A particular focus lies on the development of activation schemes, governance and implementation as well as on the outcomes of activation in terms of labor market and social integration. The volume is the first to address these issues both from a socio-economic and a legal perspective.

Author : Virginia Mantouvalou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192671394

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Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights by Virginia Mantouvalou Pdf

When discussing exploitation in workplaces, governments typically deploy a rhetoric of personal responsibility: they place attention on employers who take advantage of workers, or on workers who choose non-standard, precarious work arrangements. On this account, the responsibility of the state is to address the harm inflicted by private actors. This book questions that approach and develops the concept of 'state-mediated structural injustice at work': a phenomenon which manifests when legislation that has an appearance of legitimacy, in fact has very damaging effects for large numbers of people and results in structures of exploitation at work. Using a series of examples such as migrant workers, captive workers, people under welfare conditionality schemes, and other precarious workers, Mantouvalou shows how the law creates these structures of injustice, entrenching long-term, standard, and routine exploitation. She also assesses these examples against human rights principles, including civil, political, economic, and social rights. The ultimate aim of the work is to show that these structures routinely lead to workers' exploitation which may in turn give rise to state responsibility for human rights violations and to argue that there is a pressing need for reform.

Author : Neil Gilbert,Rebecca A. Van Voorhis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351320382

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Activating the Unemployed by Neil Gilbert,Rebecca A. Van Voorhis Pdf

The last decade has witnessed a conspicuous alteration in policies protecting unemployed people in modern welfare states. Social policies are increasingly designed to encourage economic independence. Policy makers have introduced a wide range of reforms linking disability, unemployment, and welfare programs cash benefits to work-oriented measures.Welfare policies are being framed by a new emphasis on recipients' obligations, emphasizing that the receipt of benefits creates a responsibility to take action towards becoming self-reliant. The objective is to minimize the duration of dependence or improve the well-being of family or community. Activating the Unemployed addresses this growing interest in work-oriented measures. This represents a shift in the dominant discourse on social welfare from focus on the citizen's rights to social benefits to emphasis on their responsibilities to work and lead an active life. In this volume, a distinguished array of international contributors provide cross-cultural perspectives to analyze recent diverse policy initiatives to activate the unemployed in nine countries-Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each provides a systematic account of the background, design, implementation, and results of employment-oriented measures. Collectively they permit comparison of organized responses to common problems in the areas of public assistance (welfare), unemployment, and disability, among others. Further chapters seek to broaden perspectives on policy options, the issues raised, and lessons learned in the course of activating the unemployed. This thorough and insightful account addresses significant contemporary issues and concerns about welfare, social security, and unemployment. It will aid policy makers, professionals, and scholars in assessing current trends in welfare in various countries throughout the world.

Author : Marie-Andrée Jacob,Anna Kirkland
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781786437983

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Research Handbook on Socio-Legal Studies of Medicine and Health by Marie-Andrée Jacob,Anna Kirkland Pdf

This timely Research Handbook offers significant insights into an understudied subject, bringing together a broad range of socio-legal studies of medicine to help answer complex and interdisciplinary questions about global health – a major challenge of our time.

Author : Lavinia Bifulco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317053613

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Social Policies and Public Action by Lavinia Bifulco Pdf

The concept of public action is a magnifying lens for shedding light on the plurality of institutional and social actors interacting in policies. Taking into account a changing social world that is redefining the State and its instruments, it is well suited for picking out transformations that have been affecting European social policies for some twenty years or so now: the territorial reorganization of powers; the spread of a public-private mix in the provision of services; the rise of new forms of collaborative governance; the institutionalization of the European agenda on social investment. This book examines social policies as normative and cognitive devices that contribute to organizing social life and are themselves moulded and redefined by it. The perspective of public action is located where it is possible to observe how these devices come into action, the powers and interests they help mobilize and the dynamics they generate. Policies thus appear as a tangle of rather diverse processes in which the erosion of the ‘social’ coexists with the emergence of innovative forms of social organization. Public action is the key tool that helps to deal with this tangle by posing the following questions. What vocabularies, significances and practices are set in motion by the ‘social’ today? What are the resources that fuel it? What powers are deployed in it?

Author : Tania Bazzani
Publisher : BWV Verlag
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : 9783830538059

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European Employment Policies by Tania Bazzani Pdf

Author : Tania Bazzani
Publisher : BWV Verlag
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : 9783830538042

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European Employment Policies: Key Concepts, Domestic Implementation, Current Challenges by Tania Bazzani Pdf

Author : Janice R. Bellace,Beryl ter Haar
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781786433114

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Research Handbook on Labour, Business and Human Rights Law by Janice R. Bellace,Beryl ter Haar Pdf

Inquisitive and diverse, this innovative Research Handbook explores the ways in which human rights apply to people at work, through national constitutional provisions, judicial decisions and the application of rights expressed in supranational instruments. Key topics include evaluation of the role of the ILO in developing and promoting internationally recognized labour rights, and the examination of the meaning of the obligation of business to respect human rights, considering the evolution from international soft law to incorporation in codes of conduct and the emerging requirement of due diligence.

Author : Frans Pennings,Gijsbert Vonk
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800886353

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Research Handbook on European Social Security Law by Frans Pennings,Gijsbert Vonk Pdf

This comprehensive second edition Research Handbook discusses a wide range of timely questions and dilemmas ensuing from the present state of European social security law. Presenting a kaleidoscopic concept of social security, a new generation of leading experts identifies future lines of inquiry that are likely to dominate the discourse in the coming years.

Author : Julia Lopez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009170277

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Inscribing Solidarity by Julia Lopez Pdf

This volume offers insights into the consequences of a growing reliance on the principle of solidarity to 'inscribe' social policies.