Working Poverty in Europe - (Work and Welfare in Europe) by N Fraser & R Gutierrez & R Pena-Casas (Hardcover)

About the Book

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-336) and index.

Book Synopsis

Offering a comparative perspective, this book examines working poverty - those in work who are still classified as 'poor'. It argues that the growth in numbers of working poor in Europe is due to the transition from a Keynesian Welfare State to a 'post-fordist' model of production.

Review Quotes

'Recommended' - CHOICE

'The crosscutting themes offer valuable insights, particularly with regard to mobility into and out of working poverty and the position of women. The chapters being written in the form of articles and therefore readable separately as well as together, readers may choose to select only the parts most interesting to them.' CLR News

'This comprehensive and thoroughly-researched book quite rightly offers no simple political programme for the reduction of in-work poverty. What it does offer is a sense of the complexity of this policy field, and a source of information and properly tentative conclusions which anyone attempting to develop policy in the field really ought to read.' - Citizen's Income Trust

About the Author

GUILLAUME ALLÈGRE Economist and Lecturer in Sciences Po-Paris, France BERTA ÁLVAREZ-MIRANDA Associate Professor of Sociology at Complutense University Madrid, Spain GIULIANO BONOLI Professor of Social Policy at the Swiss Graduate School for Public Administration, Lausanne, Switzerland ERIC CRETTAZ Lecturer in the MAPS, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland DALILA GHAILANI Researcher at the European Social Observatory, Belgium ALEXANDER GOERNE Research Assistant, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK MARTA IBÁÑEZ Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Oviedo, Spain KAREN JAEHRLING Senior Researcher at the Institute for Work, Skills and Training, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany ANNA SAFUTA Researcher at the European Social Observatory, Belgium