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Bolton SC, Laaser K & McGuire D (2016) Quality Work and the Moral Economy of European Employment Policy. Journal of Common Market Studies, 54 (3), pp. 583-598. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12304
Abstract
Following a decade of radical economic and workplace restructuring, it is important to understand how state employment policies support or deny human flourishing. This article utilizes a realist document analysis approach and reviews European employment policy through a moral economy lens. It fuses different moral economy approaches, drawing together the work of Karl Polanyi and Andrew Sayer a multi-layered conceptual lens is offered that explores the tensions between a commodification of labour and human needs. A dominant market ideology is revealed, highlighting how quality work has been subsumed by the flexicurity agenda in the EU
Keywords
Flexicurity; Quality work; Moral Economy; European employment policy; Dignity;
Employment
Journal
Journal of Common Market Studies: Volume 54, Issue 3
Status | Published |
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Publication date | 31/05/2016 |
Publication date online | 27/10/2015 |
Date accepted by journal | 13/07/2015 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/23024 |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
ISSN | 0021-9886 |
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Emeritus Professor, Management, Work and Organisation
Senior Lecturer, Management, Work and Organisation