This book challenges the underlying presupposition that regular employment is the royal road to inclusion. Drawing on original empirical research, it investigates the inclusionary and exclusionary potentials of different types of work, including activation programmes.

It is often argued that European welfare states, with regulated labour markets, relatively generous social protection and relatively high wage equality (compressed wage structures), have become counter-productive in a globalised and knowledge-intensive economy. Using in-depth, comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of employment, welfare and citizenship in a number of European countries, this book challenges this view. It provides: a comprehensive critique of the idea of globalisation as a challenge to European welfare states; an updated overview of employment and unemployment levels in Europe; detailed country chapters with new and previously inaccessible information about employment and unemployment policies written by national experts. "Unemployment, Welfare Policies and Citizenship" is aimed at students and teachers of social policy, welfare studies, politics and economics.

Changing labour markets, unemployment and unemployment policies in a citizenship perspective, Jorgen Goul Andersen, Knut Halvorsen
Employment and unemployment in Europe - towards improvement? Jorgen Goul Andersen, Jan Bendix Jensen
Unemployment and unemployment policy in Britain - increasing employability and redefining citizenship Jochen Clasen
To be or not to be employed - unemployment in a "work society" Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer
France: the impossible new social compromise?, Pascal Ughetto, Denis Bouget
Labour market participation in the Netherlands - trends, policies and outcomes, Wim van Oorschot
Is high unemployment due to welfare state protection? Lessons from the Swedish experience, Bengt Furaker
Denmark - from the edge of the abyss to a sustainable welfare state, Jorgen Goul Andersen
Unemployment and (un)employment policies in Norway - the case of an affluent but oil-dependent economy - the paradox of plenty? Knut Halvorsen
Unemployment and unemployment policy in Finland, Heikki Ervasti
Slovenia's navigation through a turbulent transition, Miroljub Ignjatovic, Anja Kopac, Ivan Svetlik, Martina Trbanc
Unemployment and unemployment policy in Switzerland, George Sheldon
Work, welfare and citizenship - diversity and variation within European (un)employment policy, Jochen Clasen, Wim van Oorschot.