Offering a comparative perspective, this book examines working poverty - those in work who are still classified as 'poor'. It argues that the growth in numbers of working poor in Europe is due to the transition from a Keynesian Welfare State to a 'post-fordist' model of production.

'Recommended' - CHOICE

'The crosscutting themes offer valuable insights, particularly with regard to mobility into and out of working poverty and the position of women. The chapters being written in the form of articles and therefore readable separately as well as together, readers may choose to select only the parts most interesting to them.' CLR News

'This comprehensive and thoroughly-researched book quite rightly offers no simple political programme for the reduction of in-work poverty. What it does offer is a sense of the complexity of this policy field, and a source of information and properly tentative conclusions which anyone attempting to develop policy in the field really ought to read.' - Citizen's Income Trust

Autorentext
GUILLAUME ALLÈGRE Economist and Lecturer in Sciences Po-Paris, France BERTA ÁLVAREZ-MIRANDA Associate Professor of Sociology at Complutense University Madrid, Spain GIULIANO BONOLI Professor of Social Policy at the Swiss Graduate School for Public Administration, Lausanne, Switzerland ERIC CRETTAZ Lecturer in the MAPS, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland DALILA GHAILANI Researcher at the European Social Observatory, Belgium ALEXANDER GOERNE Research Assistant, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK MARTA IBÁÑEZ Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Oviedo, Spain KAREN JAEHRLING Senior Researcher at the Institute for Work, Skills and Training, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany ANNA SAFUTA Researcher at the European Social Observatory, Belgium

Inhalt
PART I Introduction; R.Gutiérrez, R.Peña-Casas & N.Fraser In-work-poverty in Europe: A Comparative Perspective; A. Goerne Worlds of Working Poverty: Cross-national Variation in the Mechanisms that Produce Working Poverty; E.Crettaz & G.Bonoli PART II In-work Poverty in Spain; I.Garcia, R.Gutiérrez, & M.Ibáñez In-work-poverty, the French Case: In-work Poor or Poverty Due to Lack of Work?; G.Allègre In- work poverty in the UK; N.Fraser When Dual Earnership is Not Enough: Poland as an Illustration the Specificities of In-work Poverty in Central and Eastern Europe; A.Safuta In-work Poverty in Sweden; B.Hallerod & D.Larsson PART III Social Assistance Schemes and Financial Incentives to Work: Tradeoffs and Consequences: A European Cross-country Comparison; G.Allègre & K.Jaehrling Dynamics of In-work Poverty; R.Gutiérrez, M.Ibáñez & A.Tejero Solving the Gender Paradox of the Working Poor: Opening the Household Black Box by Individualising In-work Poverty Risks; R.Peña-Casas & D.Ghailani Work, Family or State? From Wage Inequalities to Standard of Living Inequalities and In-work Poverty in a European Cross-country Perspective; G.Allègre Migration and In-work Poverty; B.Alvarez-Miranda Conclusion; N.Fraser, R.Gutiérrez & R.Peña-Casas