Les perspectives d'un marché du travail européen

Lefresne, Florence

doi:10.1051/futur:20083475

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“…The intensity of debates around secure employment pathways in France results from domestic initiatives, whilst the term flexicurity is viewed with suspicion if not outright hostility. For some commentators, the EU proposals serve only to confuse domestic debates, and flexicurity is simply a product of the weakness of EU employment regulation (Lefresne, 2008).…”

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Towards a European labour market? Trade unions and flexicurity in France and Britain

Milner

2012

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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The EU's flexicurity approach to labour market policy promised advantages for trade unions but also posed challenges, given their weak situation in policy formulation at EU level and in many member states. This article explores the potential for union mobilisation on flexicurity and unions' capacity to influence policy debates and outcomes in two member states. In the UK, flexicurity has low political salience and unions' weakened voice has given them little capacity for mobilisation or influence, although they have linked flexicurity to campaigns on agency workers and restructuring. In France, unions have developed alternative proposals on making employment pathways secure and have succeeded in shifting debate towards these proposals rather than the Commission's flexicurity recommendations, although divergence between the positions of unions, employers and the state have limited outcomes to date. Unbalanced or instrumental application of flexicurity measures tends to erode rather than promote trust between social partners, in line with wider developments across member states. EU policies provide only weak leverage since trade unions' ability to influence labour market policy depends on their position within domestic institutions.

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Towards a European labour market? Trade unions and flexicurity in France and Britain

Milner

2012

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…As a conclusion, it can be stated that the objective of achieving a knowledge society built on the basis of investing in personal development and future technologies is far from being achieved. The Lisbon Strategy has mainly focused on the cost competitiveness of the EU economy (Lefresne, 2008), while the EES has been waiting in the background, relying on growth to achieve its quantitative goals, abandoning by the wayside the true instruments needed to build a highly competitive knowledge-based economy, i.e. highquality employment in terms of both its endogenous dimension (wages, social protection, lifelong learning) and its exogenous one (education, childcare services and other care services for dependents).…”

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Social Policies of the European Union

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Degryse

2010

Global Social Policy

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“…It would therefore seem, picking up on the words of F. Lefresne (2008), that generally speaking the Lisbon strategy has focused on the cost-competitiveness of the EU economy, while the EES has been holding out for growth in an attempt to reach its quantitative targets, thereby neglecting the real elements of what constitutes a highly competitive knowledge-based economy, i.e. quality in employment.…”

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Introduction

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Boulin

2009

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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Lisbon has always been something of a hybrid: both a process bringing forth new forms of governance (including in its capacity of setting new priorities) and a strategy identifying and ranking priorities by interlinking different policies. Lisbon can also be regarded as a product of the 'Third Way' and the new socialism or, alternatively, as a hidden offshoot of a liberal approach. It can be viewed as an amalgamation of numerous sectoral policies (monetary, internal market, innovation, social, education, etc) or else as a source of tension between economic and social policy. In short, Lisbon is an amorphous political phenomenon which is interpreted differently depending on the interpreter's expectations and even on his/her basic discipline (law, economics, sociology, political science). It will not be possible for us to analyse all of these dimensions here; we shall concentrate on what we regard as the most critical points.This introduction is divided into three sections.The first is a overview of the content and evolution of Lisbon.The second compares the Lisbon strategy with the traditional Community approach, enabling us to highlight the specific, original features of the Lisbon process. This is of course a complex and contradictory process, and what we shall try to do is home in on its principal characteristics, even if that means overlooking certain ambiguities. By so doing, we shall also be in a better position to understand the role of the players involved in both approaches, as well as the (very broad) social policy areas concerned.The third section focuses more closely on the European Employment Strategy (EES), primarily its quantitative and qualitative aspects. A lack of space prevents us from examining other areas of social policy (inclusion/poverty, pensions, health care).

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Les perspectives d'un marché du travail européen

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Towards a European labour market? Trade unions and flexicurity in France and Britain

Towards a European labour market? Trade unions and flexicurity in France and Britain

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