Security in a flexible economy: toward a third age for work and welfare links?

Robert Salais
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Robert Salais: Director of the Research Laboratory for ‘Institutions and Historical Dynamics of the Economy’ (IDHE), National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS — École Normale Supérieure de Cachan), France. Permission is gratefully acknowleged to publish this article, which will appear in Hedva Sarfarti and Giuliano Bonoli (eds.) Labour market and social protection reforms in international perspective: Parallel or converging tracks?, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2001, vol. 7, issue 2, 309-320

Abstract: This article considers the transformation of the world of work and its interrelationship with changes in the social regulation of work and social security. The implications of the contradiction between a greater emphasis on autonomy and skills at work and the exclusionary effects of greater selectivity in recruitment are discussed. It is argued that we are witnessing a move to a ‘third age’ of work and social protection, in which qualitative and participatory aspects come to the fore, alongside aspects of the ‘social question’ more typical of earlier ‘ages’ — alleviating poverty and reducing unemployment. In conclusion the article considers the role of the European Union in addressing the resulting challenges.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/102425890100700212

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