Social Investment and Institutional Change

ISBN-13: 9781032439761 / Angielski

Andrea Ciarini

Opis

This book focuses on the main institutional changes affecting the Social Investment approach, as the framework for the European social agenda.

The contributions gathered address these issues from different angles, placing two fundamental issues at the centre of the analysis. The first concerns the promotion of the strategic actions of European institutions and the national governments aimed at making social investment a recovery priority in the Eurozone. The second aims to make the social investment approach compatible not only with a high road to growth, as it is in the Stock-Flow-Buffer scheme, but also with the right to balance market and non-market activities as a universal right linked to a different combination of working and living time.

It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy and European politics.

Spis treści

1.Introduction: Investments and social policies in the years of the crisis .  2.The social investment welfare state: what can it achieve?  3.Minimum income and active labour market policies. The traps of the work-first approaches.  4.Social policies and employment in personal care services. The working poor and services in times of austerity.  5.Social investment recovery for a resilient Eurozone.  6.Minimum income and working time in the pluri-active society.

O autorze

Andrea Ciarini is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology in the Department of Social and Economic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His research interests concern social policies and welfare systems from a comparative European perspective.