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Article: Anne Gray, Unsocial Europe: Social Protection or Flexploitation?(Book review)
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- Labour/Le Travail
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- March 22, 2006
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Anne Gray, Unsocial Europe: Social Protection or Flexploitation? (London: Pluto Press 2004)
IN UNSOCIAL EUROPE, Anne Gray investigates recent European trends towards labour market flexibility and work-for-welfare programs. The study critically analyses the interaction of benefits systems and changing forms of work and labour regulation in the context of globalization and European integration. Drawing on evidence from a number of cases, Gray argues that the EU and its member states have compromised the project of "Social Europe," as well as workers' rights and benefits more generally, by relying on neo-liberal policies that seek to mobilize low-cost labour and ...