Since the mid 1990s, the focus of European employment and social policy has shifted from protection to promotion. This book provides a timely analysis of this new form of governance, and the new forms of policy delivery and audit which accompany it.

Contents: 1. Introduction Robert Salais, Ralf Rogowski and Noel Whiteside PART I: SECURING TRANSITIONS AND PROMOTING CAPABILITIES Section 1.1. Securing Transitions through Flexicurity Policies, Placement Services and Working-time Accounts 2. Social and Labour Market Reforms: Four Agendas Peter Auer and Bernard Gazier 3. Transitional Labour Markets and Flexicurity: Managing Social Risks Over the Life Course Günther Schmid 4. Privatisation of Placement Services in Light of the Transitional Labour Market Approach Petra Kaps and Holger Schütz 5. Working-time Options Over the Life Course: Challenges and Company Practices Philip Wotschack Section 1.2. Promoting Capabilities 6. Making Employees’ Pathways More Secure: A Critical Examination of the Company’s Responsibility Bénédicte Zimmermann 7. Reframing the Issue of Responsibility in Labour Market Activation Policies Jean-Michel Bonvin 8. Creating Collective Capability: Historical Perspectives on Co-ordinating Public Action Noel Whiteside PART II: WHAT FUTURE FOR EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT POLICIES? 9. Occupational Structures and Social Models in European Societies Colin Crouch 10. Corporate Social Responsibility and Employment: A Plurality of Configurations Claude Didry 11. Reflexive Labour Law, Capabilities and the Future of Social Europe Simon Deakin and Ralf Rogowski 12. Employment and the Social Dimension of Europe: What Constitutive Conventions of the Market? Robert Salais Index