Europe and the Politics of Capabilities

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511489075

The social agenda of the European Union is shifting towards broad social initiatives that align social and economic objectives with the promotion of employment. This calls for an action framework that permits social dialogue and political deliberation to inform and complement legislative action at all levels. The debate, however, has been dominated by advocates of traditional welfare states. This book, to break out of this sterile stalemate, demonstrates how an employment-orientated social policy in Europe can develop from a new, different set of policy principles, specifically 'a capability approach'. Taking inspiration from the work of Amartya Sen, this book focuses on the effective freedom people need to achieve their goals in life and work. The result of ongoing collaboration between researchers and social actors, it will appeal to social scientists, students, policy-makers and all those concerned with the building of Europe.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
pp v-vii
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List of figures
pp viii-viii
- By Robert Salais, Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Centre IDHE Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Robert Villeneuve, Director of EUREXCTER (Excellence Territoriale en Europe) Brussels
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List of tables
pp ix-ix
- By Robert Salais, Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Centre IDHE Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Robert Villeneuve, Director of EUREXCTER (Excellence Territoriale en Europe) Brussels
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Notes on contributors
pp x-xii
- By Robert Salais, Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Centre IDHE Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Robert Villeneuve, Director of EUREXCTER (Excellence Territoriale en Europe) Brussels
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Preface
pp xiii-xiv
- By Odile Quintin, General Directorate DG Employment and Social Affairs European Commission
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Acknowledgements
pp xv-xvi
- By Robert Salais, Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Centre IDHE Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Robert Villeneuve, Director of EUREXCTER (Excellence Territoriale en Europe) Brussels
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1 - Introduction: Europe and the politics of capabilities
pp 1-18
- By Robert Salais, Professor of Economics and Director Research Centre IDHE Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Robert Villeneuve, Director Of Eurexcter (Excellence Territoriale en Europe) Brussels
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Part I - Products, territories and economic activity in Europe
pp 19-20
- By Robert Salais, Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Centre IDHE Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Robert Villeneuve, Director of EUREXCTER (Excellence Territoriale en Europe) Brussels
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2 - Europe tested through its products: the Renault–Vilvoorde affair and its implication for industry and employment policies
pp 21-37
- By Claude Didry, CNRS researcher CNRS (CR1) in sociology Centre ‘Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Economie’ (IDHE), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
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3 - Competences-oriented logics and the politics of unemployability
pp 38-53
- By Bénédicte Zimmermann, Senior lecturer The Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Allemagne (CRIA) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
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4 - Regional capabilities and the European Employment Strategy
pp 54-72
- By Martin Heidenreich, Professor of European Studies in the Department of Social Sciences University of Bamberg
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5 - The territorial pacts in Italy: the competitive corporatism assumption in question
pp 73-90
- By Serafino Negrelli, Associate Professor of Industrial Relations Law Faculty of the University of Brescia; Researcher Fondazione Regionale Pietro Seveso, Milan
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6 - Mobilising local capabilities for a European economic project: the case of Marseilles
pp 91-108
- By Pierre-Paul Zalio, Senior Lecturer Department of Social Sciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and researcher at the Centre IDHE
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7 - Employment and social dialogue at the European level: a different approach to governance of territories
pp 109-120
- By Robert Villeneuve, Director of EUREXCTER (Excellence Territoriale en Europe) Brussels
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Part 2 - Assessing EU procedures and European initiatives
pp 121-122
- By Robert Salais, Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Centre IDHE Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Robert Villeneuve, Director of EUREXCTER (Excellence Territoriale en Europe) Brussels
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8 - The European Employment Strategy: from ends to means?
pp 123-139
- By Gilles Raveaud, PhD student on economics University of Paris x Nanterre
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9 - Regional growth, national context and the European Structural Funds: an empirical appraisal
pp 140-162
- By Jacky Fayolle, Director Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES), Paris; Associate Professor in Economics University Pierre Mendès-France of Grenoble, Anne Lécuyer, Researcher Banque de France
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10 - Sketching European social dialogue freehand
pp 163-173
- By Emmanuel Julien, Head of Department of the international and European social affairs MEDEF (Association of French Enterprises)
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11 - The fourth dimension in collective bargaining and social co-operation
pp 174-184
- By Jean Lapeyre
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12 - The nature of the open method of co-ordination
pp 185-202
- By Philippe Pochet, Director Observatoire social europ'een (OSE), Brussels
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Part 3 - What politics of capabilities?
pp 203-204
- By Robert Salais, Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Centre IDHE Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Robert Villeneuve, Director of EUREXCTER (Excellence Territoriale en Europe) Brussels
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13 - Capabilities, social rights and European market integration
pp 205-221
- By Jude Browne, Research Fellow Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Simon Deakin, Professor of Corporate Governance, Centre for Business Research and Judge Institute of Management University of Cambridge, Frank Wilkinson, Reader in Applied Economics and Research Associate, Centre for Business Research University of Cambridge
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14 - Collective rights, deliberation and capabilities: an approach to collective bargaining in the Belgian retail industry
pp 222-238
- By Jean De Munck, Professor of Sociology the University of Louvainla-Neuve, Isabelle Ferreras, Research Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research University of Louvain-la-Neuve; Affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Harvard University
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15 - The gender settlement and social provision: the work – welfare relationship at the level of the household
pp 239-254
- By Jane Lewis, Professor of Social Policy University of Oxford
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16 - Security and the working life: new perspectives
pp 255-271
- By Noel Whiteside, Professor in Social Policy University of Warwick
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17 - Social needs, development, territories and full employment based on solidarity
pp 272-282
- By Pierre Bachman, expert adviser national level near the Economic Sector of the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) and member of the Conseil Economique et Social Régional (CESR) of the Provence-Côte d'Azur region
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18 - Incorporating the capability approach into social and employment policies
pp 283-300
- By Robert Salais, Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Centre IDHE Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
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Appendix 1 - EU bibliography
pp 301-305
- By Robert Salais, Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Centre IDHE Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Robert Villeneuve, Director of EUREXCTER (Excellence Territoriale en Europe) Brussels
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Appendix 2 - Information on EU official documents
pp 306-306
- By Robert Salais, Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Centre IDHE Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Robert Villeneuve, Director of EUREXCTER (Excellence Territoriale en Europe) Brussels
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