Reinventing social solidarity across Europe / / ed. by Marion Ellison.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Barry, Jim,; Berg, Elisabeth,; Chandler, John,; Ellison, Marion,; Fenger, Menno,; Filčák, Richard,; Janky, Béla,; Josipovič, Damir,; Krasteva, Anna,; Mareš, Petr,; Niżnik, Józef,; Orbán, Annamária,; Paridon, Kees van,; Sirovátka, Tomáš,; Storey, Andy,; Stănuş, Cristina,; Szántó, Zoltán,; Škobla, Daniel,
• HerausgeberIn: Ellison, Marion,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

As Europe's public realms face upheaval, this is the first book to identify how social solidarity is being reinvented from below and redefined from above. Interdisciplinary transnational approaches provide new insights into the relationship between national and transnational social solidarity across Europe.Valuable to students, policy makers and scholars, it reveals social solidarity as the defining pillar of European integration, bringing a greater dimension and integrity beyond democracy across nation states.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: social solidarity in Europe: the fourth pillar -- The concept of solidarity in the European integration discourse -- Solidarity at the margins of European society: linking the European social model to local conditions and solidarities -- Towards a globalisation of solidarity? -- Contested terrains and emerging solidarities within childcare law, policy and practice in Europe -- Embedding European identity in context: changing social solidarities in Europe -- Intra-European energy solidarity at the core of the European integration process: future possibilities and current constraints -- Social solidarities and immigration integration policies in South-Eastern Europe -- Normative power Europe: a tool for advancing social solidarity within and beyond Europe? -- Social solidarity in post-socialist countries -- Trade unions, NGOs and social solidarity in Romania -- Social solidarity and preferences on welfare institutions across Europe -- Social solidarity, human rights and Roma: unequal access to basic resources in Central and Eastern Europe -- Conclusion: the future of social solidarity in an enlarged Europe: key issues and research questions -- Index