Reconstruction amid deconstruction: or why we need more of the social in European social models

Rubery, Jill

doi:10.1177/0950017011419718

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“…The state has had to elaborate devices that deal with the problems and outcomes of a more precarious and diversely destandardized workforce, and remakes its intervention and policy in the face of this -the state is in effect pulled back in by the very contradictions that it generates (Rubery, 2011). The idea that the British state is fundamentally focused on abstention and policing the edges and main victims of destandardization misses the point.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Non-Standard Employment in Europe

Koch¹,

Fritz²

2013

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Non-Standard Employment in Europe

Koch¹,

Fritz²

2013

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“…But these, and other factors, apply to a greater or lesser extent to income transfers. 26 Note that much of the literature overlooks how social policy has to change in light of secular trends in household composition, feminization of the workforce and an ageing society (see Grimshaw and Rubery 2011;Rubery 2011). The nature of labour markets has also changed, as emphasized by Heintz and Lund (2012), with multinational corporations heavily involved in flexible subcontracting to which social policy does, or does not have to, respond.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy

Fine¹

2017

Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractOne particular index of the systemic nature of the current crisis is the weaknesses of intellectual responses to the crisis and the inability, often self-confessed by orthodox thinkers and policy makers, to offer convincing or viable remedies. Unsurprisingly, this intellectual deficiency has primarily focused on the role of finance. But the intellectual weaknesses-especially as far as policy responses are concerned-run deeper and wider, covering (un)employment, industrial and housing policies, and so on. To a large extent, this reflects the debilitating influence of neoliberalism (looking at things in terms of a simple dichotomy between market and state, themselves simply conceived), the compromises with it, and the corresponding weaknesses of alternatives on offer prior to the crisis. These weak alternatives have swung between looking backwards to a Keynesian/interventionist renewal, and inventing alternative monikers for contemporary capitalism, such as post-Fordist or, more recently, the Cheshire-cat grinning knowledge economy.In this light, this paper examines critically what has been one of the most successful intellectual contributions to the neoliberal period, Esping-Andersen's Welfare Regimes Approach (WRA) to comparative social policy. The paper shows that the WRA has deep roots within the conditions of the post-war boom and, as a consequence, was already well past its "use by date" when it emerged in the 1990s, let alone over the subsequent two decades of neoliberalism that have been underpinned by financialization. A close examination of the literature on the WRA shows how it has suffered from being unable to account for the differences between countries and programmes and has neglected both the changing conditions associated with neoliberalism and the causal factors underpinning it, and the closer determination of social policies themselves. The paper offers similar commentary on other approaches to social policy, such as appeal to convergence, divergence or path dependence. To some degree, the study of social policy has become tired, having been used to addressing yet one more crisis of the welfare state as if all that is involved is another round of responses to neoliberal antipathy or straitened economic circumstances.With such analysis as critical point of departure-together with specification of financialization, its relationship to neoliberalism and their variegated influences over social ...

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“…National legal systems can achieve the same ends by very different means, thus it is inherently complex to make quantitative comparisons between legal systems. Nevertheless, indices of labour market legislation have been created for this purpose and are used in debates on the importance or otherwise of EPL in creating efficient and fair labour markets (for a critique, Rubery, 2011). Furthermore, without inspection and enforcement, labour market legislation is likely to be ineffectual.…”

Section: Legal Framework (Traffic Laws)mentioning

confidence: 99%