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The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Welfare States and Political Opportunities
Author(s): M. Giugni
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publication Date: November 17, 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 1349314285
- ISBN-13: 9781349314287
Book Description
The Contentious Politics of Unemployment: An Introduction; M.Giugni PART I: CONTEXT AND OPPORTUNITIES Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and the Claim-Making in the Field of Unemployment Politics; M.Cinalli & M.Giugni The Protest on Unemployment: Forms and Opportunities; D.della Porta Networks and Political Contention over Unemployment: A Comparison of Britain, Germany and Switzerland; M.Cinalli & K.Füglister PART II: ACTORS AND DYNAMICS A Precarious Balance of Interests: Unions and the Unemployed in Europe; A.Linders & M.Kalander The Role of Civil Society Actors in the Contentious Politics of Unemployment; S.Baglioni Transcending Marginalization: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France, Germany and Italy in a Comparative Perspective; S.Baglioni, B.Baumgarten, D.Chabanet & C.Lahusen PART III: UNEMPLOYMENT POLITICS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION Globalization and the Contentious Politics of Unemployment: An Empirical Assessment of the Denationalization and Convergence Theses; C.Lahusen, M.Giugni & M.Berclaz Europeanization and the EU Supranational Multi-Organizational Field over Unemployment: Elite-Dominance or New Opportunities?; P.Statham & M.Cinalli When the Unemployed Challenge the European Union: The European Marches as a Mode of Externalization of Protest; D.Chabanet The Contentious Politics of Unemployment: Some Conclusions; M.Giugni
