The Future of Work in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780815397786 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 262 str.

Ignace Glorieux

Opis

Recent years have witnessed major changes to the workplace across Europe. The speed of these changes requires constant monitoring and reappraisal. In this book, recent trends are analyzed and their consequences discussed, within a socio-historical context which also reveals underlying patterns of continuity.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: patterns of change at work; Labour market regulation after Fordism: five countries compared, Max Koch; ICT, organizations and labour in the information society, Bram Steijn; Transnational labour markets, citizenship and welfare state reforms, Roswitha Pioch; Incentive and action: work and income decisions at the intersection of the labour market and the welfare state, Georg Vobruba; Revealing the traits of workfare: the Swedish example, Lars Harrysson and Jan Petersson; Unpaid work: a case from the voluntary sector, Lesley McMillan; Women and work: new patterns and directions, Barbara Littlewood; Reconciliation of work and family life: policies and practices in Western Europe, Ingrid Jönsson; The transition from school to work in Flanders: gender inequality and the role of household formation, Heidi Belet, Ignace Glorieux and Ilse Laurijssen; Putting the garden on the market: vocationalization, commodification and privatization in education and training in Great Britain, Paul Littlewood; The state, education and the market: the case of engineering in Finland, M'hammed Sabour and Pasi Tulkki; Retirement as the future of work: an empirical analysis of early exit from the labour market in Belgium, Mark Elchardus and Joachim Cohen; Index.

O autorze

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