Capability as a Yardstick for Flexicurity Using the Senian Paradigm to Evaluate a European Policy Agenda

• Autor principal: Lehweß-Litzmann, René (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2014
• Materias: Society & social sciences; Sociology: work & labour; Labour-market; Social policy; Europe; Employment; Capability approach; Flexicurity; Part-time job; Quality of life; Unemployment
• Acceso en línea: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Sumario

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.

ISBN

gup2014-771
9783863951634

Acceso

Open Access