Struggling For A Social Europe

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367589427

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Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion in the Eu by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

In the field of anti-poverty policies, the interplay between the Europe 2020 overarching strategy and the 'Semester' have marked major discontinuity vis-à-vis the Open Method of Coordination for social protection and social inclusion (Social OMC) of the Lisbon phase. This book therefore asks whether and how Europe matters in the fight against poverty and social exclusion by assessing the emergence and possible institutionalisation of a European multi-level, multi-stakeholder and integrated policy arena in the new institutional framework. Supranational developments, multi-level interactions, as well as the strategy effects at the national level are analysed in six European countries - Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, UK and Sweden - with the aim to identify the key factors affecting the implementation of the Europe 2020 anti-poverty strategy. This book will be of key interest to students, scholars and practitioners in social policy, political science and European governance, and more broadly to European Union politics, European integrations studies, sociology and economics.

Author : Andy Mathers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317049036

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Struggling for a Social Europe by Andy Mathers Pdf

Protests at summit meetings have inspired intense debate over the nature and significance of the 'anti-globalization' or 'anti-capitalist’ movement. However, the European dimension of this movement is still largely unknown. In this insightful book Andy Mathers addresses this deficit by focusing on events that have marked the birth of a European social movement. He relates the development of the movement to key matters such as economic, employment and welfare state restructuring along neoliberal lines. He also challenges ideas about the nature of contemporary collective action and the character of present day social movements. Mathers discusses the significance of the movement and its future development through a critical engagement with the work of major writers in European sociology and of academics influential in the wider global movement such as Pierre Bourdieu. A postscript brings readers fully up-to-date with developments in the type of 'social Europe' propagated by the institutions of the EU as well as in the maturation of a social movement to oppose it.

Author : Francisco Entrena-Durán,Rosa M. Soriano-Miras,Ricardo Duque-Calvache
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789901436

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Social Problems in Southern Europe by Francisco Entrena-Durán,Rosa M. Soriano-Miras,Ricardo Duque-Calvache Pdf

As the European Union continues to struggle to establish a common agenda on tackling social problems, this compelling book presents a set of comparative sociological studies in southern European countries from leading scholars working in the region. It widens the debate by looking at the specific social problems of southern Europe and highlights the shared trends and critical regional disparities that may improve our understanding of Mediterranean welfare states.

Author : Stefano Civitarese Matteucci,Simon Halliday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Arno Pilgram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351873376

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Welfare Policy from Below by Arno Pilgram Pdf

Available in paperback for the first time, Welfare Policy from Below is the most comprehensive study available of social exclusion in contemporary Europe. Invigorating and informative, the book puts forward a new form of 'social exclusion knowledge', based on an innovative conceptual and theoretical framework and a comparative empirical study of eight European cities. The case studies - encompassing research in Germany, Austria, the UK, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain - focus on a range of problems associated with exclusion. Issues such as poverty, housing, work, migration, gender equality and the family are considered in the context of different European welfare regimes, providing insights into the experiences of ordinary people facing exclusionary challenges. The distinguished contributors argue that social security and welfare must provide the infrastructure for the coping strategies of those at risk of exclusion. Featuring a substantive new preface which includes contemporary discussions in European welfare policy, Welfare Policy from Below will be invaluable to policy-makers as well as academic researchers.

Author : Prue Chamberlayne,Michael Rustin,Tom Wengraf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026000260

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Biography and Social Exclusion in Europe by Prue Chamberlayne,Michael Rustin,Tom Wengraf Pdf

Based on 250 life-story interviews in seven European Union countries, Biography and social exclusion in Europe:analyses personal struggles against social exclusion to illuminate local milieus and changing welfare regimes and contexts;points to challenging new agendas for European politics and welfare, beyond the rhetoric of communitarianism and the New Deal;vividly illustrates the lived experience and environmental complexity working for and against structural processes of social exclusion;refashions the interpretive tradition as a teaching and research tool linking macro and micro realities.·[vbTab]·[vbTab]·[vbTab]Students, academic teachers and professional trainers, practitioners, politicians, policy makers and researchers in applied and comparative welfare fields will all benefit from reading this book.

Author : David Natali (OSE),Bart Vanhercke (OSE)
Publisher : ETUI
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9782874523748

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Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2015 by David Natali (OSE),Bart Vanhercke (OSE) Pdf

The sixteenth edition of Social policy in the European Union: state of play has a triple ambition. First, it provides easily accessible information to a wide audience about recent developments in both EU and domestic social policymaking. Second, the volume provides a more analytical reading, embedding the key developments of the year 2014 in the most recent academic discourses. Third, the forward-looking perspective of the book aims to provide stakeholders and policymakers with specific tools that allow them to discern new opportunities to influence policymaking. In this 2015 edition of Social policy in the European Union: state of play, the authors tackle the topics of the state of EU politics after the parliamentary elections, the socialisation of the European Semester, methods of political protest, the Juncker investment plan, the EU’s contradictory education investment, the EU’s contested influence on national healthcare reforms, and the neoliberal Trojan Horse of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Author : Olivier Fillieule,Guya Accornero
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785330988

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Social Movement Studies in Europe by Olivier Fillieule,Guya Accornero Pdf

Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be essential for scholars and students of European social movements.

Author : Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783476565

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The European Social Model in Crisis by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead Pdf

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the impact of the crisis and austerity policies on all elements of the European Social Model. This book assesses the situation in each individual EU member state on the basi

Author : Heinz Steinert,Arno Pilgram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:901325487

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Welfare Policy from Below: Struggles Against Social Exclusion in Europe by Heinz Steinert,Arno Pilgram Pdf

Author : Georg Menz,Amandine Crespy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137473400

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Social Policy and the Eurocrisis by Georg Menz,Amandine Crespy Pdf

In this study, an international and multidisciplinary team take stock of the promise and shortfalls of 'Social Europe' today, examining the response to the Eurocrisis, the past decade of social policy in the image of the Lisbon Agenda, and the politics that derailed a more Delorsian Europe from ever emerging.

Author : Maurizio Ferrera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134347315

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Welfare State Reform in Southern Europe by Maurizio Ferrera Pdf

This book offers a detailed analysis of the efforts made to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece.

Author : Etienne Penissat,Alexis Spire,Cedric Hugree
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788736305

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Social Class in Europe by Etienne Penissat,Alexis Spire,Cedric Hugree Pdf

Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issue of Europe has been placed at the centre of major political conflicts. Each of these crises has revealed profound splits in society, which are represented in terms of an opposition between those countries on the losing and those on the winning sides of globalisation. Inequalities beyond those between nations are critically absent from the debate. Based on major European statistical surveys, the new research in this work presents a map of social classes inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. It reveals the common features of the working class, the intermediate class and the privileged class in Europe. National features combine with social inequalities, through an account of the social distance between specific groups in nations in the North and in the countries of the South and East of Europe. The book ends with a reflection on the conditions that would be required for the emergence of a Europe-wide social movement.

Author : Anthony Giddens,Patrick Diamond,Roger Liddle
Publisher : Polity
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745639352

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Global Europe, Social Europe by Anthony Giddens,Patrick Diamond,Roger Liddle Pdf

'Global Europe, Social Europe' makes an essential contribution to the debate now opening up over the future of Europe in the wake of the demise of the Constitution.

Author : Aurélie Dianara Andry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-06
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780192867094

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Social Europe, the Road Not Taken by Aurélie Dianara Andry Pdf

This book examines the European Left's attempt to think and give shape to an alternative type of European integration-a 'social Europe'-during the long 1970s. Based on fresh archival material, it shows that the western European Left-in particular social democratic parties, trade unions, and to a lesser extent 'Eurocommunist' parties-formulated a project to turn 'capitalist Europe' into a 'workers' Europe'. This project favoured coordinated measures for wealth redistribution, market regulation, a democratisation of the economy and of European institutions, upward harmonisation of social and fiscal systems, more inclusive welfare regimes, guaranteed employment, economic and social planning with greater consideration for the environment, increased public spending to meet collective needs, greater control of capital flows and multinational corporations, a reduction in working time, and a fairer international economic order favouring the global south. During the pivotal years following 1968, deeply marked by labour militancy, new social movements, economic crisis, and the unmaking of the 'postwar compromise', a window of opportunity opened in which European integration could have taken different roads. The defeat of 'social Europe' was a result of a decade-long social conflict which ended with the affirmation of a neoliberal Europe. Investigating this forgotten struggle and the reasons of its defeat can be useful not just to scholars and students eager to understand the historical evolution of European integration, the European Left, and European capitalism, but also to anyone interested in building alternative European and global futures.