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Changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship readdresses the question of how full citizenship may be preserved and developed in the face of enduring labour market pressures. It:
clarifies the relationship between changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship;
discusses possible ways in which the spill-over effect from labour market marginality to loss of citizenship can be prevented;
specifies this problem in relation to the young, older people, men and women and immigrants;
offers theoretical and conceptual definitions of citizenship as a new, alternative approach to empirical analyses of labour market marginalisation and its consequences;
highlights the lessons to be learned from differing approaches in European countries.
"... students of comparative European social policy will find this a useful source book." Journal of Social Policy
"A state-of-the-art account of the most pressing social policy issue in European countries: employment and unemployment. Views of experts from British, Scandinavian and Continental welfare state traditions add up to a truly European perspective." Lutz Leisering, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Jorgen Goul Andersen is Professor of Political Sociology at the Centre for Comparative Welfare State Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the economic and political challenges of current welfare states, and on political behaviour, political participation and democracy.
Per H. Jensen is a sociologist and currently Associate Professor in Comparative Welfare State Studies at Aalborg University. Since 1981, he has conducted several research projects on labour markets and welfare states in a comparative perspective. He is chair of COST A13 'Changing labour markets, welfare policies, and citizenship'.