The Social Quality of Citizenship: Three Remarks for Kindling a Debate

Abstract

Social rights were to be the completion of the citizenship status of all members within a political community. Th rough a variety of causes (their entanglement with the goals of full employment and the welfare state, the complexities of the political project of the European Union, and conceptual confusion) the development of these rights has been arrested. Th e article sketches some of the origins of the present predicament of (social) rights and (social) citizenship. Th e article is informed by the hope that the arguments it puts forward may contribute to a renewed discussion on the necessity and promises of an EU form of citizenship that is worth instituting and emulating.

Investing in Workplace Innovation Pays Off for SMEs: A Regional Innovation Initiative from the Netherlands

“…Employment relations become embedded in a more political concept of social cooperation and social membership. In a discussion in a similar vein about membership in today's welfare state (in Europe), Korver (2011) proposes to apply the concept of citizenship in combining issues of employment and social welfare at the macro level. He does this with the intention to enhance options for social inclusion and cohesion.…”