Deconstructing Flexicurity And Developing Alternative Approaches

Copyright © ${Date}. ${Publisher}. All rights reserved. Deconstructing Flexicurity and Developing Alternative Approaches In recent years, the concept of flexicurity has come to occupy a central place in political and academic debates regarding employment and social policy. It fosters a view in which the need for continuously increasing flexibility is the basic assumption, and the understanding of security increasingly moves from social protection to self-insurance or individual adaptability. Moreover, it rejects the traditional contradictions between flexibility and security, blending the two into a single notion and thus depoliticizing the relationships between capital and labour. This volume provides a critical discussion of the flexicurity concept, the theories upon which it is built and the ideas that it transmits about work, unemployment and social justice. It shows that flexicurity fosters the further individualization of social protection, an increase in precariousness and the further weakening of labour in relation to capital. The authors present a series of alternative theoretical, normative and policy approaches that provide due attention to the collective and political dimension of vulnerability and allow for the development of new societal projects based on alternative values and assumptions. Maarten Keune is Professor of Social Security and Labour Relations and Co-Director of the Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Amparo Serrano is Professor of Social Psychology and Sociology at the University Complutense of Madrid. Routledge Advances in Sociology For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com 92 93 94 95 Solidarity in Individualized Societies Recognition, Justice and Good Judgement Søren Juul Heritage in the Digital Era Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause Rodanthi Tzanelli Generation, Discourse, and Social Change Karen R. Foster Sustainable Practices Social Theory and Climate Change Elizabeth Shove and Nicola Spurling 96 The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies A Theory of Sociotechnical Change Ulrich Dolata 97 Consuming Families Buying, Making, Producing Family Life in the 21st Century Jo Lindsay and JaneMaree Maher 98 Migrant Marginality A Transnational Perspective Edited by Philip Kretsedemas, Jorge Capetillo-Ponce and Glenn Jacobs 99 Changing Gay Male Identities Andrew Cooper 100 Perspectives on Genetic Discrimination Thomas Lemke 101 Social Sustainability A Multilevel Approach to Social Inclusion Edited by Veronica Dujon, Jesse Dillard, and Eileen M. Brennan 102 Capitalism A Companion to Marx’s Economy Critique Johan Fornäs 103 Understanding European Movements New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest Edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox 104 Applying Ibn Khaldnjn The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology Syed Farid Alatas 105 Children in Crisis Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts Edited by Manata Hashemi and Martín Sánchez-Jankowski 106 The Digital Divide The internet and social inequality in international perspective Edited by Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert 107 Emotion and Social Structures The Affective Foundations of Social Order Christian von Scheve 108 Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingency A Study of the United States, China and Taiwan Edited by Nan Lin, Yang-chih Fu and Chih-jou Jay Chen 109 The Longings and Limits of Global Citizenship Education The Moral Pedagogy of Schooling in a Cosmopolitan Age Jeffrey S. Dill 110 Irish Insanity 1800–2000 Damien Brennan 111 Cities of Culture A Global Perspective Deborah Stevenson 112 Racism, G