The purpose of part III is to draw out the main features of the capability approach. The overall issue is to study how public policies (whatever their level) provide actors (individual and collective) with the conditions, rights (substantial and procedural) and resources that enable them to effectively participate in the market and to secure their conditions of life. The capability concept has the potential to clarify the relationship between social rights and the market order, as expressed in the discourse of European integration (Jude Brown, Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson, chapter 13). Collective bargaining in new working conditions requires collective rights including access to information, and the capabilities to deliberate (Jean De Munck and Isabelle Ferreras, chapter 14). The welfare to work approach cannot properly address equality of treatment between men and women; true equality requires progress toward a capability approach (Jane Lewis, chapter 15). Building a framework of active security means modifying prevailing conceptions of welfare, away from compensating for losses towards providing individuals with capabilities (Noel Whiteside, chapter 16). Pierre Bachman (a social actor from the union side) makes the connection between the capability approach and the new type of “full employment” to be aimed at by the EU (chapter 17). Going further requires institutional innovations favouring democratic participation and deliberation of various intermediary bodies (civil, social and political). The political legitimacy of social Europe remains to be achieved.