Research Handbook on Social Policy and Employment

Edited by Gaby Ramia, Professor of Policy and Society, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia, Zoë Irving, Emeritus Professor of International and Comparative Social Policy, School for Business and Society, University of York, UK, Elke Heins, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK and Ricardo Velázquez Leyer, Professor, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Universidad Iberoamericana, México

‘This book is very impressive. Its 25 chapters, written by top researchers in the field, provide a comprehensive view of a vast body of research. The view it provides is global and interdisciplinary. It’s a useful resource for anyone working on some combination of welfare and work.’

• Contents1 Research handbook on social policy and employment: an introduction 1PART I THEORY AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORK–WELFARE NEXUS2 What is work? 153 Work and welfare in historical perspective 314 The power resources perspective 455 Industrialism, the knowledge-based economy and welfare 616 Wage supplements and capitalism in the UK 75PART II GLOBAL INEQUALITIES AT WORK7 Global political economy of labour and social protection: some issues for atwenty-first-century research agenda 938 Young people and the global workforce: exploitation, exclusion andunemployment 1099 The governance of labour migration and housing: addressing tensions in labourprotection 12710 The promise and disappointment of social protection floors: work and socialprotection in Africa 145PART III EMPLOYMENT POLICY, TRANSFERS AND SERVICES11 Wage negotiations and minimum wages: can and do they safeguard againstpoverty? 16112 Unemployment insurance 17913 Active labour market policy and employment services reform 19514 Welfare conditionality: current issues and future debates 211PART IV INDUSTRIAL AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS DIMENSIONS15 Dualisation of labour markets and its effects on the welfare state and socialpolicies: a global perspective 22916 Immigrant worker organising 24717 Trade unions and social policy in post-industrial economies: changing unionmembership composition and its policy implications 26518 Free trade agreements and employment relations 28119 Pensions and labour organisation in Latin America: a waning connection 297PART V THE FUTURE OF WORK AND WELFARE20 The platform economy: a critical appraisal of the contemporary world of work 31921 The future of work from an eco-social perspective: from green growth visionsto a post-productivist pathway 33322 Universal basic income and its ambivalent relationship with work 34723 The future of work and the welfare state: the four-day week as a potentialsolution? 35924 Why do we need to socialise care work and how can it be done? 37325 Digital social policy: research agendas and futures 391