Europe and the Politics of Capabilities (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Europe and the politics of capabilities Robert Salais and Robert Villeneuve; Part I. Products, territories and economic activity in Europe: 2. Europe tested through its products: the Renault-Vilvoorde affair and its implication for industry and employment policies Claude Didry; 3. Competences-orientated logics and the politics of unemployability Benedicte Zimmermann; 4. Regional capabilities and the European Employment Strategy Martin Heinenreich; 5. The territorial pacts in Italy: the competitive corporatism assumption in question Serafino Negrelli; 6. Mobilising local capabilities for a European economic project: the case of Marseilles Pierre-Paul Zalio; 7. Employment and social dialogue at the European level: a different approach to governance of territories Robert Villeneuve; Part II. Assessing EU procedures and European initiatives: 8. The European Employment Strategy: from ends to means? Gilles Raveaud; 9. Regional growth, national context and the European Structural Funds: an empirical appraisal Jacky Fayolle and Anne Lecuyer; 10. Sketching European social dialogue freehand Emmanuel Julien; 11. The fourth dimension in collective bargaining and social co-operation Jean Lapeyre; 12. The nature of the open method of co-ordination Philippe Pochet; Part III. What politics of capabilities?: 13. Capabilities, social rights and European market integration Jude Browne, Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson; 14. Collective rights, deliberation and capabilities Jean de Munck and Isabelle Ferreras; 15. The gender settlement and social provision: the work-welfare relationship at the level of the household Jane Lewis; 16. Security and the working life: new perspectives Noel Whiteside; 17. Social needs, development, territories and full employment based on solidarity Pierre Bachman; 18. Incorporating the capability approach into social and employment policies Robert Salais; Appendices; Index.