Individual working lives through the lens of the capability approach: evaluation of policies and items for debate

Abstract

The aim of this concluding article is to bring together the ideas and arguments of the articles that make up this issue so as to present some conclusions and recommendations. The article emphasizes important lessons from this special issue, underlining how Europe has lost its way over recent years by imposing the market as the primary mechanism for social and economic organization. It presents some recommendations and priorities for future debates on the employment and social policy agenda.Ré sumé L'objectif de cet article de conclusion est de rassembler les idées et les arguments des articles qui constituent ce numéro spécial et de présenter ainsi quelques conclusions et recommandations. L'article met en lumière les leçons importantes que l'on peut tirer de ce numéro spécial, en soulignant comment l'Europe a fait fausse route au cours des dernières années en imposant le marché comme mécanisme essentiel d'organisation sociale et économique. Il présente également

Bringing Sen’s capability approach to work and human resource practices

“…Over the last 293 Sen's capability approach decade, it has also been progressively extended to the study of work and employment. First adopted in this area as a yardstick against which to assess European labour market policies (Salais and Villeneuve, 2004;Formation Emploi, 2007), it has subsequently proved a robust tool for studying flexicurity and activation policies (Bonvin and Orton, 2009;Verd and Vero, 2011), New Public Management indicators (Salais, 2006;Vero et al, 2012) and corporate policies (Zimmermann, 2004(Zimmermann, , 2011Abbateccola et al, 2012). The specificity of the capability approach is to emphasize people's real freedom to choose the life they have reasons to value (Sen, 1999).…”

El uso de diagramas de satisfacción vital y parrillas biográficas como herramientas híbridas para la obtención de datos secuenciales

“…This author proposed several alternatives for their use: sending them to the informant before the interview, completing them at the time of the first interview, or completing them in a later session. This kind of diagram was used as a hybrid tool within a European research project that dealt with the extent to which the social policies deployed in different European countries were able to offer effective social protection in a context of increasingly unstable and changing labour market trajectories (Verd et al, 2009;Abbatecola et al, 2012). The project was carried out between January 2007 and December 2010, and the fieldwork in Spain was conducted by a team from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Verd and López-Andreu, 2012).…”

Facing Trajectories from School to Work

“…Over the last decade, it has also been progressively extended to the study of work and employment. First adopted in this area as a yardstick against which to assess European labour market policies (Salais and Villeneuve 2004 ;Formation Emploi 2007 ), it has subsequently proved a robust tool for studying fl exicurity and activation policies Verd and Vero 2011 ), new public management indicators (Salais 2006 ; ) and corporate policies (Zimmermann 2004Abbateccola et al 2012 ).…”