The Politics of Unemployment in Europe

Contents: Introduction: State and civil society responses to unemployment: welfare, conditionality, and collective action, Marco Giugni; Unemployment and social protection, Bengt FurÃ¥ker; Adapting employment policies to post-industrial labour market risks, Giuliano Bonoli; Work and welfare: the rights and responsibilities of unemployment in the UK, Peter Dwyer and Nick Ellison; The promises of labour: the practices of activating unemployment policies in Switzerland, Christoph Maeder and Eva Nadai; Trade Unions and the unemployed in the inter war period and the 1980s in Britain, Andrew Richards; Belgian trade unions, the unemployed and the growth of unemployment, Jean Faniel; Political challengers, service providers or service recipients? Participants in Irish pro-unemployed organizations, Frédéric Royall; Welfare states, labour markets, and the political opportunities for collective action in the field of unemployment: a theoretical framework, Marco Giugni, Michel Berclaz and Katharina Füglister; The hidden hand of the European Union and the silent Europeanization of public debates on unemployment: the case of the European Employment Strategy, Christian Lahusen; Bibliography; Index.