Europeanization; Flexicurity; Public Action; Transition; Flexibility; Security; Cognitiv Approach
Abstract :
[en] This paper focuses on the translation of a European employment policy - flexicurity - by various institutional players in Belgium. Based on a documentary analysis and some twenty semi-structured interviews, we will study the way in which these actors appropriate and interpret flexicurity. We will draw mainly on recent contributions from the sociology of public action, in particular the cognitive approach to public policy (Surel, 2000; Muller and Surel, 1998) and the Europeanization of employment policies (Palier and Surel, 2007; 2010). We will show that this appropriation has given rise, in Belgium, to a transformation in the meaning conferred on security, which is now substituted for that of flexibility.
Research Center/Unit :
IRSS-CRIS - Institut de recherches en Sciences Sociales. Centre de Recherche et d'Interventions Sociologiques - ULiège
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Beuker, Laura ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Sociologie de l'action publique et des problèmes du travail
Gérard, Julie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Sociologie de l'organisation et de l'intervention
Orianne, Jean-François ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Sociologie de l'action publique et des problèmes du travail
Language :
English
Title :
“Flexicurity: a politics of ideas? A cross-section of Belgian institutional players in 2013.”
Alternative titles :
[fr] « La flexicurité : une politique des idées ? Regards croisés d’acteurs institutionnels belges en 2013 »
Publication date :
May 2014
Event name :
Colloque 432 International de l’ACFAS, « La flexibilisation du travail peut-elle sauver le capitalisme ? »
