150452 20251017144637.0 doi 10.1080/0023656X.2012.650456 sideral 142505 ART-2012-142505 eng Gentile, Alessandro (orcid)0000-0003-0387-9113 Social vulnerability in Europe. The new configuration of social risks, Costanzo Ranci (ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 2012 In the last two decades, a new social order has appeared in the advanced and postindustrial societies. It has been mainly characterized by a strong structural uncertainty, related to a globalized economy, and by the increase of social individualization, with a gradual weakening of kinship and public support networks. During the same period, economic and institutional mechanisms that have provided a high standard of living for the majority of the Western European population have lost their traditional role of maintaining social protection and integration. We are currently facing a new paradigmatic change that is reflected in the emergence of new social risks to the point where job insecurity, income instability, increasing fragility of family support, and inertia of welfare institutions intersect. The traditional social policies are strategically inadequate in meeting these new social risks, such as work-family conciliation, elderly and child care, difficulties in labor market entry, high rate of low-paid and temporary jobs... info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 0.341 2012 HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 19 / 33 = 0.576 2012 Q3 T2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR 21 / 24 = 0.875 2012 Q4 T3 info:eu-repo/semantics/other info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 23, 1 (2012), 160-162 Labor hist. LABOR HISTORY 0023-656X 81280 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150452/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1388280 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150452/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:150452 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:29:55 ARTICLE