Social vulnerability in Europe. The new configuration of social risks, Costanzo Ranci (ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Gentile, Alessandro

Resumen: 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...

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2012.650456

Año: 2012

Publicado en: LABOR HISTORY 23, 1 (2012), 160-162
ISSN: 0023-656X

Factor impacto JCR: 0.341 (2012)

Categ. JCR: HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES rank: 19 / 33 = 0.576 (2012) - Q3 - T2
Categ. JCR: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR rank: 21 / 24 = 0.875 (2012) - Q4 - T3

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