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Emerald Group Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of Research in the Sociology of Work, volume 22, 'Comparing European Workers Part B: Policies and Institutions'. For full information please see below:
Research in the Sociology of Work, volume 22, 'Comparing European Workers Part B: Policies and Institutions' <st1:personname w:st="on">edit</st1:personname>ed by David Brady
ISBN: 9780857249319
ISSN: 0277-2833
Publication date: 24th June 2011
Synopsis
From active labor market policies to public childcare, and from corporatism to labor unions, the policies and institutions of European labor markets have always been a source of rich debate. This volume examines the policies and institutions that Europeans societies utilize to address the challenges facing workers, work and labor markets. In the process, it appraises how the classic solutions for workers are undergoing transformations and what those transformations mean for the future of work in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. Many of these policies and institutions have evolved in important ways, and yet this volume provides evidence of continued high effectiveness. Moreover, many of the popular discussion about the tradeoffs and costs of such policies and institutions are overstated. The volume features chapters on the returns to education, social policies and single mother employment, dualism, unionization in Eastern and <st1:place w:st="on">Western Europe</st1:place>, and the consequences of globalization for the effects of unions. The volume concludes with a reflect discussion on both volumes and the potential contributions of cultural sociology to the study of European workers. This volume and its companion places the jobs, labor, labor markets, workplaces, and workers of <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> in comparative perspective. The companion volume focuses on experiences and inequalities regarding work and workers in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> (Brady 2011). Both volumes compare workers within and between European countries, and between European and other countries. Both volumes are also interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse. The two volumes provide a research agenda for and state-of-the-art investigation of European workers.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | David Brady |
| SECTION I: SOCIAL POLICY |
| Activating Workers? The Political Economy of Active Social Policy in Postindustrial Democracies | Duane Swank |
| Does European-Style Welfare Generosity Discourage Single-Mother Employment | Lane Destro and David Brady |
| Social Protection Dualism, De-industrialization and Cost Containment | Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Adam M. Saunders and Marek Naczyk |
| SECTION II: LABOR UNIONS AND LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS |
| From Class to Market: Unionization in East European Ex-Communist Countries, 1990– 2006 | Nathan D. Martin and Yunus Kaya |
| Organized Labor in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>, 1960–2006: Persistent Diversity and Shared Decline | Sanjay Pinto and Jason Beckfield |
| Whose Interests do Unions Represent? Unionization by Income in <st1:place w:st="on">Western Europe</st1:place> | Michael Becher and Jonas Pontusson |
| Labour, Globalization and Inequality: Are Trade Unions Still Redistributive? | Lucio Baccaro |
| European Workers: Meaning-Making Beings | Caitlin Daniel, Eleni Arzoglou and Michèle Lamont |
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