Full Description
This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conceived as political opportunity structures specific to this field, public debates and collective mobilizations in unemployment politics.
Contents
The Contentious Politics of Unemployment: An Introduction; M.Giugni PART I: CONTEXT AND OPPORTUNITIES Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and the Claim-Making in the Field of Unemployment Politics; M.Cinalli & M.Giugni The Protest on Unemployment: Forms and Opportunities; D.della Porta Networks and Political Contention over Unemployment: A Comparison of Britain, Germany and Switzerland; M.Cinalli & K.Füglister PART II: ACTORS AND DYNAMICS A Precarious Balance of Interests: Unions and the Unemployed in Europe; A.Linders & M.Kalander The Role of Civil Society Actors in the Contentious Politics of Unemployment; S.Baglioni Transcending Marginalization: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France, Germany and Italy in a Comparative Perspective; S.Baglioni, B.Baumgarten, D.Chabanet & C.Lahusen PART III: UNEMPLOYMENT POLITICS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION Globalization and the Contentious Politics of Unemployment: An Empirical Assessment of the Denationalization and Convergence Theses;C.Lahusen, M.Giugni & M.Berclaz Europeanization and the EU Supranational Multi-Organizational Field over Unemployment: Elite-Dominance or New Opportunities?; P.Statham & M.Cinalli When the Unemployed Challenge the European Union: The European Marches as a Mode of Externalization of Protest; D.Chabanet The Contentious Politics of Unemployment: Some Conclusions; M.Giugni
