Capability as a yardstick for flexicurity: using the Senian paradigm to evaluate a European policy agenda

Flexicurity is a European policy agenda seeking to increase both flexibility and security in the labour-market. This book argues that it needs a revision: Although flexicurity is set out to change the way Europeans work and live, and even though it is being justified by workers ́needs, flexicurity l...

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Main Author: Lehweß-Litzmann, René 1981- (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: Göttingen Univ.-Verl. Göttingen 2014
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Summary:Flexicurity is a European policy agenda seeking to increase both flexibility and security in the labour-market. This book argues that it needs a revision: Although flexicurity is set out to change the way Europeans work and live, and even though it is being justified by workers ́needs, flexicurity lacks of a clear and democratically justified vision of society. Flexicurity is confronted here with Amartya Senś capability-approach, a paradigm of well-being evaluation. How is flexicurity related to a concept of employment as part of a way of life which people have reason to value? How capability-friendly are established flexicurity-indicators? It is thus shown how the capability-approach can be used in the field of labour-market and social policy.
Item Description:Zsfassung in dt. Sprache. - Literaturverz. S. 271 - 289
Physical Description:VI, 296 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:9783863951634

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