Tackling Social Exclusion in Europe
Subtitle: the Contribution of the Social Economy
By: Roger Spear
Contributors: Defourny, Jacques; Laville, Jean-Louis
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781315204680; 9781351791762; 9781351791748
Subjects: People with social disabilities; Social Marginality; Government policy; Personnes socialement défavorisées
Description: "This book is the result of an international study by leading economists and sociologists from across Europe and North America. The response of the new social economy (primarily voluntary and co-operative sectors) to social exclusion and employability in the context of crises of unemployment and the welfare state is of wide international concern. This book looks specifically at the growth of enterprises and initiatives whose primary aim is the integration of unemployed and disadvantaged people into work. A common framework has been used in each of the country studies, thus allowing an interesting international comparative perspective to be developed. There is considerable interest in how the third sector is changing internationally in response to rapidly changing work and welfare systems. By distilling international experience this book makes an important contribution to debates about new ways of addressing the central issues of unemployment and social exclusion of disadvantaged people in society."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, Part I: Work Integration and the New Social Economy in Ten Industrialised Countries --; title: chapter Introduction --; title: chapter 1 Introduction to an International Evaluation  -- Jacques Defourny Louis Favreau Jean-Louis Laville; title: chapter 2 Austria: Recent Employment Initiatives within a Strong Tradition of Public Action  -- Peter Ulrich Lehner; title: chapter 3 Belgium: Voluntary Organisations and Integration through Work in Francophone Belgium  -- Jacques Defourny Marthe Nyssens Michel Simon; title: chapter 4 Canada: Social Mobilisation, Insertion and Local Development in Canada (Québec)  -- Louis Favreau; title: chapter 5 Finland: Voluntary Organisations and Co-operatives for Socio-economic Reintegration in Finland Pekka Pättiniemi, Harri Kostilainen  -- Marianne Nylund; title: chapter 6 France: Voluntary Sector Initiatives for Work Integration Danièle Demoustier --; title: chapter 7 Germany: Work Integration through Employment and Training Companies in Berlin and its Surrounding Region  -- Karl Birkhölzer Günther Lorenz; title: chapter 8 Italy: The Impressive Development of Social Co-operatives in Italy  -- Carlo Borzaga; title: chapter 9 Spain: A New Social Economy Still Inadequately Known and Recognised  -- Isabel Vidal; title: chapter 10 Sweden: Co-operative Development Agencies as a Means of Bridging Recent Failures of the System  -- Yohanan Stryjan Filip Wijkström; title: chapter 11 United Kingdom: Labour Market Integration and Employment Creation  -- Roger Spear; title: part, Part II: Theoretical Issues --; title: chapter 12 The Specific Role of Non-profit Organisations in the Integration of Disadvantaged People: Insights from an Economic Analysis  -- Carlo Borzaga Benedetto Gui Fabrizio Povinelli; title: chapter 13 Third Sector and Social Economy Re-examined in the Light of Initiatives Promoting Insertion  -- Jean-Louis Laville; title: chapter 14 Legitimate Orders of Social Participation and the Logic of Social Change  -- Bernard Eme; title: part, Conclusion --; title: chapter 15 New Directions in a Plural Economy -- Jacques Defourny Louis Favreau Jean-Louis Laville.