Social Investment and Institutional Change

Andrea Ciarini

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Routledge
09 October 2024

Social issues & processes; Sociology; Social work; Public administration; Medicine

Series: Social Welfare Around the World

This book focuses on the main institutional changes affecting the Social Investment approach as the framework for the European social agenda.

The contributions gathered address these issues from different angles, placing two fundamental issues at the centre of the analysis. The first concerns the promotion of the strategic actions of European institutions and the national governments aimed at making social investment a recovery priority in the Eurozone. The second aims to make the social investment approach compatible not only with a high road to growth, as it is in the Stock-Flow-Buffer scheme, but also with the right to balance market and non-market activities as a universal right linked to a different combination of working and living time.

It will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy and European politics.

Edited by: Andrea Ciarini
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781032439778
ISBN 10: 1032439777
Series: Social Welfare Around the World
Pages: 124
Publication Date: 09 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1.Introduction: Investments and social policies in the years of the crisis . 2.The social investment welfare state: what can it achieve? 3.Minimum income and active labour market policies. The traps of the work-first approaches. 4.Social policies and employment in personal care services. The working poor and services in times of austerity. 5.Social investment recovery for a resilient Eurozone. 6.Minimum income and working time in the pluri-active society.

Andrea Ciarini is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology in the Department of Social and Economic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His research interests concern social policies and welfare systems from a comparative European perspective.