This volume analyses citizenship in relation to recent changes in European welfare states. It examines concrete changes in social rights and citizenship roles, and offers normative investigations of citizenship.

List of Tables and Figures, List of Contributors, Series Editor’s Preface, Introduction: the challenges of citizenship in late twentieth-century societies, 1 1 Discourses on citizenship: the challenge to contemporary citizenship, 2 Against social solidarity and citizenship: justifying social provision in Britain and France, 3 From work to citizenship? Current transformations in the French welfare state, 4 Workfare, citizenship and social exclusion, 5 Citizenship and changes in life-courses in post-industrial welfare states, 6 Towards a gender-sensitive framework for citizenship: comparing, 7 The heterogeneity of Spanish social citizenship ,8 Profiles of citizenship: elaboration of a framework for empirical analyses, 9 Citizen (re)orientations in the welfare state: from public to private citizens?, 10 Citizenship and the struggle against social exclusion in the context of welfare state reform, 11 European social rights towards national welfare states: additional, substitute, illusory?, Index