Working Poverty in Europe: A Comparative
✍ Neil Fraser, Rodolfo Gutiérrez, Ramón Peña-Casas (eds.)
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📅 2011
🏛 Palgrave Macmillan UK
🌐 English
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Working Poverty in Europe
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- Palgrave Macmillan
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- 2011
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- English
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- Work and Welfare in Europe
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✦ 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.
✦ Table of Contents
Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Series......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 12
List of Boxes......Page 14
Notes on Contributors......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 18
RECWOWE Book Series: Work and Welfare in Europe......Page 19
Funding......Page 21
1 Introduction......Page 22
Part I Comparative Chapters......Page 34
2 A Comparative Analysis of In- Work Poverty in the European Union......Page 36
3 Worlds of Working Poverty: National Variations in Mechanisms......Page 67
Part II Country Chapters......Page 92
4 United Kingdom: Tackling Poverty in a Flexible Labour Market......Page 94
5 France: In- Work Poor or Poor Due to Lack of Work?......Page 114
6 Sweden: The Impact of Policy and Labour Market Transformation......Page 133
7 Spain: Persisting Inequalities in a Growing Employment Context......Page 154
8 Poland: When Dual Earnership Is not Enough......Page 176
Part III Cross- Cutting Themes......Page 194
9 Mobility and Persistence of In- Work Poverty......Page 196
10 Towards Individualizing Gender In- Work Poverty Risks......Page 223
11 From Wage Inequalities to Living Standard Inequalities at Household Level......Page 253
12 In- Work Poverty among Immigrants......Page 271
13 Making Work Pay for Whom? Tax and Benefits Impacts on In- Work Poverty......Page 299
14 Conclusions......Page 325
Bibliography......Page 338
Index......Page 358
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