Capability as a yardstick for flexicurity : using the Senian paradigm to evaluate a European policy agenda / René Lehwess-Litzmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehwess-Litzmann, René, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor policy--European Union countries.

Labor policy.

Job security--European Union countries.

Job security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2014.

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.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.