Capability as a yardstick for flexicurity : : using the Senian paradigm to evaluate a European policy agenda / / René Lehwess-Litzmann.
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, flexicur...
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Place / Publishing House: | Göttingen : : Universitätsverlag Göttingen,, 2014. |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages) |
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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. |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | René Lehwess-Litzmann. |