 Labour Flexibility and Insecurity: Towards an Alternative StrategyGuy Standing Chapter 18 in Labour Relations and Economic Performance, 1990, pp 439-468 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract In essence, the post-war European economy developed on the basis of a social concensus, which institutionalised five ‘labour rights’ in the context of an essentially corporatist model involving state regulation of social and economic affairs. These labour rights were: (i) Labour market security — state-guaranteed full employment. (ii) Income security — earnings protected by minimum wage machinery, wage indexation, independent unions and employer organisations incorporated politically and economically into the state, insurance-based social security and taxes to reduce (or check the growth of) income inequality. (iii) Employment security — with regulations on hiring and firing, pre-notification of redundancy, the imposition of costs on employers for ‘unfair dismissal’, and so on. (iv) Work security — through health and safety regulations, limits on working times, unsociable hours, and so on. (v) Job security — through the tolerance of demarcation practices and barriers to skill dilution, craft boundaries and job qualifications. Keywords: Labour Market; Social Security; Social Security System; Income Security; Social Consensus (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-11562-4_18 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11562-4_18 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in International Economic Association Series from Palgrave Macmillan |
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