Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe

Based on contributions from international experts, this volume provides an up-to-date account of globalization's influences on individual life courses in nine different modern societies, and of cross-nationally varying political strategies to mediate this influence.

Auteur
GOSTA ESPING-ANDERSEN Professor of Sociology at Pompeu Fabra University, Spain ANNA BARANOWSKA Studied Quantitative Methods and Information systems at Warsaw School of Economics, Poland PAOLO BARBIERI Teaches Economic Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy URACHA CHATRAKUL NA AYUDHYA Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour at Middlesex University, UK MATT FLYNN Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University Business School, UK JELENA HELEMÄE Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Stratification, Institute of International and Social Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia TOMAS KORPI Professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University, Sweden JUAN-IGNACIO MARTÍNEZ-PASTOR Associate Professor at the National University of Distance Education, Spain MELINDA MILLS Professor of Sociology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands CHRISTINA PURCELL Doctoral Student in the Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour Division at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK ELLU SAAR Professor at the Institute for International and Social Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia MICHAEL TAHLIN Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden RUDI WIELERS Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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List of Tables List of Figures Preface Foreword; G. Esping-Andersen Notes on Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe; S. Buchholz, K.Kolb, D.Hofäcker & H.Blossfeld PART II: COUNTRY-SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS ON CONSERVATIVE WELFARE REGIMES Selective Flexibilization and Deregulation of the Labour Market; S.Buchholz & K.Kolb The Flexibilization of the Dutch Labour Market; R.Wielers & M.Mills PART III: COUNTRY-SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS ON SOUTHERN EUROPEAN WELFARE REGIMES The Flexibilization of the Spanish Labour Market; J.Martínez Pastor & F.Bernardi Italy: No Country for Young Men (and Women); P.Barbieri PART IV: COUNTRY-SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS ON SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC WELFARE REGIMES A Recipe for Coping with the Challenge of Globalization?; D.Hofäcker Changing Work-Life Inequality in Sweden; T.Korpi & M.Tåhlin PART V: COUNTRY-SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS ON POST-SOCIALIST WELFARE REGIMES The Estonian Form of Globalization; J.Helemäe & E.Saar From Guaranteed Employment to Job Competition; A.Baranowska PART VI: COUNTRY-SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTION LIBERAL WELFARE REGIMES The Effects of Flexibilization on Social Divisions and Career Trajectories in the UK Labour Market; C.Purcell, M.Flynn, & U.Ayudhya PART VII: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION The Flexibilization of European Labour Markets and the Development of Social Inequalities; D.Hofäcker, S.Buchholz, K.Kolb, & H.Blossfeld Index