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This compelling Handbook explores how social policies have been adapted and remodelled in response to transformations in work and employment in the twenty-first century. It outlines the history of the welfare-work relationship, assesses the current state of the global workforce and provides theoretical and practical analyses of the work-employment-social policy relationship.
Leading experts review the state of the art in the work-welfare nexus and explore new avenues for future research. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, chapters consider young people in the labour market, unemployment insurance, free trade agreements and employment relations as well as the future of work and the welfare state. They also address core aspects of social protection and employment services, including the policy impact of enduring, current and future challenges. The Handbook sheds light on existing social policy ideas and initiatives which can be used to develop better living conditions for all.
This authoritative book is an essential resource for scholars and students of comparative social policy, political science, the sociology of work and labour policy. It is also an engaging and informative read for policymakers and civil servants working in employment relations, as well as welfare professionals and civil society actors.
Contents
Contents
1 Research handbook on social policy and employment: an introduction 1
PART I THEORY AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORK-
WELFARE NEXUS
2 What is work? 15
3 Work and welfare in historical perspective 31
4 The power resources perspective 45
5 Industrialism, the knowledge-based economy and welfare 61
6 Wage supplements and capitalism in the UK 75
PART II GLOBAL INEQUALITIES AT WORK
7 Global political economy of labour and social protection: some issues for a
twenty-first-century research agenda 93
8 Young people and the global workforce: exploitation, exclusion and
unemployment 109
9 The governance of labour migration and housing: addressing tensions in labour
protection 127
10 The promise and disappointment of social protection floors: work and social
protection in Africa 145
PART III EMPLOYMENT POLICY, TRANSFERS AND SERVICES
11 Wage negotiations and minimum wages: can and do they safeguard against
poverty? 161
12 Unemployment insurance 179
13 Active labour market policy and employment services reform 195
14 Welfare conditionality: current issues and future debates 211
PART IV INDUSTRIAL AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS DIMENSIONS
15 Dualisation of labour markets and its effects on the welfare state and social
policies: a global perspective 229
16 Immigrant worker organising 247
17 Trade unions and social policy in post-industrial economies: changing union
membership composition and its policy implications 265
18 Free trade agreements and employment relations 281
19 Pensions and labour organisation in Latin America: a waning connection 297
PART V THE FUTURE OF WORK AND WELFARE
20 The platform economy: a critical appraisal of the contemporary world of work 319
21 The future of work from an eco-social perspective: from green growth visions
to a post-productivist pathway 333
22 Universal basic income and its ambivalent relationship with work 347
23 The future of work and the welfare state: the four-day week as a potential
solution? 359
24 Why do we need to socialise care work and how can it be done? 373
25 Digital social policy: research agendas and futures 391
