Flexibility and security: what forms of political regulation?

Matthieu de Nanteuil-Miribel and Mohamed Nachi
Additional contact information
Matthieu de Nanteuil-Miribel: Professor of Sociology at the Université catholique de Louvain, Researcher at the Centre Entreprise et Environnement, Associate Researcher, Chaire Hoover d’ éthique économique et sociale (Louvain-La-Neuve) and at LSCI-GRIOT (Paris)
Mohamed Nachi: Professor of Sociology at the University of Liège, Associate Researcher at GSPM (Paris)

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2004, vol. 10, issue 2, 300-318

Abstract: This article examines the strengths and weaknesses of the concept of ‘flexicurity’, calling into question the tendency of the contemporary cultural imagination to regard flexibility as a framework for the expression of individual freedom. It then describes a range of possible policy options, in relation to the market, in the perspective of combining flexibility of labour and security of persons. Three major options emerge: the ‘procedural', the ‘neo-substantive’ and the ‘partnership’ options. As a conclusion, this article comes out in favour of a different policy which would alter the framework for public intervention. It especially underlines the need for a ‘flexible’ and ‘decentred’ Welfare State, capable of supporting and encompassing forms of regulation emanating from civil society, in particular – but not exclusively – from the social partners.

Date: 2004
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/102425890401000211 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:treure:v:10:y:2004:i:2:p:300-318

DOI: 10.1177/102425890401000211

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().