A `Social Turn' in the European Union?: New Trends and Ideas about Social Convergence in Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032236896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 230 str.

Jacek Kubera; Tomasz Morozowski

Opis

This volume examines the current state of Social Europe, as well as key issues in European social policy. The aim of this volume is to identify the EU’s social policies and point to areas in which co-operation between member states is likely to produce best results.

Spis treści

PART I: THE IDEA OF A SOCIAL EUROPE – NOT THE SAME, BUT STILL ALIVE

1. The social turn and the potential to reconstruct the social dimension of the European Union

Jacek Kubera and Tomasz Morozowski

PART II: LOOKING FOR NEW TRACKS

2. A Social Europe or a more protectionist one? The single market in the aftermath of the crises

Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse

3. From undefined ‘Social Europe’ to ‘more democracy at work’ – new trends, new paradigms?

Wolfgang Kowalsky

4. The revision of the Posting of Workers Directive and its impact on national law

Reingard Zimmer

5. The crisis of the ‘German Model’: Europe should embark on the Fourth Industrial Revolution with a more balanced growth model

Rémi Bourgeot

6. Tax incentives to create new high-skilled jobs – trigger for sustainable economic growth of European societies

Artur Tim

7. Can the German post-Hartz model of the labour market be considered as a universal remedy for unemployment in the European Union?

Jadwiga Nadolska

PART III: POLITICAL VISIONS AND IDEAS

8. On the future of ‘Social Europe’ – between competitiveness and high social standards

Martin Koppernock

9. The importance of posting of workers for the member states: myth and reality

Agnieszka Woloszyn

10. Europe is built on competition which stimulates, on co-operation which strengthens, and solidarity which unites

Adam Kapella and Garance Dubarry

PART IV: BACK TO THE SOCIAL

11. The social turn? Towards a new understanding of the benefits of Social Europe

Justyna Schulz

O autorze

Jacek Kubera, PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.

 

Tomasz Morozowski, PhD candidate, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, and analyst at the Institute for Western Affairs in Poznan.

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