Active social policies in the EU : : Inclusion through participation? / / ed. by Rik van Berkel, Iver Hornemann Møller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Berkel, Rik van,; García, Marisol,; González, Aitor Gómez,; Hansen, Henning,; Hespanha, Pedro,; Lind, Jens,; Machado, Carlos,; Møller, Iver Hornemann,; Roche, Maurice,; Valkenburg, Ben,; Williams, Colin C.,; de Schampheleire, Jan,; van Berkel, Rik,
• HerausgeberIn: Hornemann Møller, Iver,; van Berkel, Rik,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

This book challenges the underlying presupposition that regular employment is the royal road to inclusion. Drawing on original empirical research, it investigates the inclusionary and exclusionary potentials of different types of work, including activation programmes. Active social policies in the EU makes an important contribution to the debates in this area by: reporting on original international comparative research; reflecting on and critically assessing current activating policies; evaluating the consequences of these policies, as well as challenging the premises they are based on; including the perspectives of service users in its analyses; offering recommendations for the future design of activating policies. The book will be invaluable for students, lecturers and researchers of social and labour market policies and policy makers. It is essential reading for those interested in issues of inclusion, activation and the role of types of work in promoting inclusion.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- The concept of inclusion/exclusion and the concept of work -- The concept of activation -- The inclusive power of standard and non-standard work -- Inclusion through participation? Active social policies in the EU and empirical observations from case studies into types of work -- Patterns of exclusion/inclusion and people’s strategies -- Entrepreneurial activation: the Spanish Capitalisation of Unemployment Benefits programme -- Orthodoxy and reflexivity in international comparative analysis -- Activation policies as reflexive social policies -- Index