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, flexicur...

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Other Authors: Lehwess-Litzmann, René, 1981- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Göttingen : Universitätsverlag 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 Sen's 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.