Reinventing social solidarity across Europe [electronic resource].
Ellison, Marion.
Farnsworth, KevinContributor
Irving,Zoë MContributor
Bristol : Policy,
2012.
This valuable collection is the first to identify how social solidarity across Europe is being re-invented from below and redefined from above.
Description based upon print version of record.
Reinventing Social Solidarity across Europe; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface and acknowledgements; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction: social solidarity in Europe: the fourth pillar; Globalisation and social solidarity in Europe: continuity and loss; Situating theories of social solidarity within European integration; Europe on the edge; The aims of this book; 2. The concept of solidarity in the European integration discourse; 3. Solidarity at the margins of European society: linking the European social model to local conditions and solidarities
IntroductionSolidarity and social capital in the Czech society; The approach to social inclusion; Conclusions; 4. Towards a globalisation of solidarity?; Introduction; The concept of solidarity; Globalisation; Individual solidarity and globalisation; Institutionalised solidarity and globalisation; Conclusions; 5. Contested terrains and emerging solidarities within childcare law, policy and practice in Europe; Introduction; Childcare law, inequality and the politics of social solidarity; Co-determining local and transnational solidarity; Conclusion
6. Embedding European identity in context: changing social solidarities in EuropeIntroduction: setting the context; Racing to the bottom or moving to the top?; The poverty of representation and the recovery of politics; Concluding thoughts; 7. Intra-European energy solidarity at the core of the European integration process: future possibilities and current constraints; Introduction; Energy, security and solidarity; Intra-European energy solidarity reflected in policies and networks; Conclusions and perspectives: will the global crisis speed up the realisation process?
8. Social solidarities and immigration integration policies in South-Eastern EuropeCommunist solidarity: imposed, but impossible; Post-communist solidarity: marginalised, but possible; Reinventing solidarity: new relations in a new field; Solidarity versus security; Conclusion: the new topoi of solidarity; 9. Normative power Europe: a tool for advancing social solidarity within and beyond Europe?; Introduction; Normative power Europe: the concept; Critiquing NPE: Eurocentrism and hypocrisy?; The synergy of norms and interests: NPE and international solidarity (or the lack of it); Conclusion
10. Social solidarity in post-socialist countriesTheoretical starting points; The notion of Central and Eastern Europe; The Inform-bureau crisis8 and the emergence of self-management; Socio-economic transition in the Eastern-Central Europe region; Selected cases of the new solidarity; Conclusion; 11. Trade unions, NGOs and social solidarity in Romania1; Social solidarity; Trade unions, NGOs and solidarity; Contextual factors and research questions; The data and its limitations; Dimensions of solidarity in Romania; The prospects for European solidarity
Membership in trade unions and NGOs and feelings of solidarity in Romania
This valuable collection is the first to identify how social solidarity across Europe is being re-invented from below and redefined from above.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Europe -- Economic integration -- Social aspects.
Group identity -- Europe.
Solidarity -- Europe.
Business & Economics
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Economic Theory
Social Conditions
Gender & Ethnic Studies
Ethnic & Race Studies