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Unsocial Europe: Social Protection or Flexploitation? Hardcover - 2004

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Anne Gray presents a critical analysis of trends in European welfare systems and labour market policies. How and why are they changing? How do they affect the daily lives of those facing unemployment or precarious work? Gray shows how the idea of unemployment benefits as a right is evolving into a regime closer to American 'workfare'. She explains how this policy forces the unemployed into low paid, temporary or part-time jobs associated with the new flexible' labour market. Drawing on unemployed people's own accounts of their experiences - in the UK, Germany, France and Belgium - Gray illustrates the job market as seen from the dole queue. She examines how the unemployed assess benefit rules and welfare-to-work programmes. Exploring the changing nature of work in Europe, Gray reveals why is there a shortage of full-time permanent jobs, what is to be done, and what the future holds for labour market regulation in Europe.Providing clear explanations about shifts in welfare policy, this book is ideal for trade unionists, activists and students, and makes an important contribution to wider debates on globalisation and the future of work.

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Title Unsocial Europe: Social Protection or Flexploitation?
Author Anne Gray
Binding Hardcover
Pages 256
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Pluto Press (UK)
Date December 1, 2004
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Index
ISBN 9780745320328 / 0745320325
Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
Dimensions 8.7 x 5.54 x 0.91 in (22.10 x 14.07 x 2.31 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
Library of Congress subjects Europe - Social policy, Manpower policy - Europe
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005295129
Dewey Decimal Code 331.110

About the author

Liesbeth Sluiter is a Dutch freelance photographer and journalist, who has worked for over 25 years with a passionate focus on environment, gender and global development issues. She is the author of The Mekong Currency (1993), published in the UK, the Netherlands, and Japan, and has written numerous articles on development and environmental issues. For the past three years she has focused on the issue of working conditions in the global garment industry and on the work of the Clean Clothes Campaign, a worldwide network that pushes for improvement of these conditions.