This book presents an original multidisciplinary conceptual framework for the analysis of the processes of construction/transformation of workers' social rights. The framework was developed by taking an analysis of employment and social protection in the Latin European countries as starting-point, and thus offers an innovative alternative to the dominant approaches. It takes account of the institutional forms determining employees' resource flows and associated rights, and introduces a new analytical category of «resource regimes». Four spheres are identified for the observation of recent resource regime changes: employment systems, public policy frameworks, social hierarchies and industrial relations systems. The various chapters explore how each of these spheres participates in the institution of social rights over resources, and identify key vehicles of change such as transformations in forms of employment, labour market policies, pension reforms, the swing to a logic of competencies, social pacts, and the processes involved in the construction of the European Union. The book brings to the fore the dynamic relation between employment, wages and social rights and aims to contribute to current debates on social protection reforms and employment policies implemented at both national and European levels.

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The Editors: Bernadette Clasquin, labour sociologist at the Groupe de Recherche sur l'Éducation et l'Emploi (GREE), Université Nancy 2, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (France) and Nathalie Moncel, labour economist at the Centre d'Études de l'Emploi, Paris (France) have jointly coordinated the network since 1997 and were chief editors. Mark Harvey, political economist, senior researcher fellow at the ESRC Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester (United Kingdom) and Bernard Friot, Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris X-Nanterre (France), member of the Travail et Mobilités-CNRS labour research group, played a central role in the preparatory scientific debates laying the groundwork for the publication.

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Contents: Bernadette Clasquin/Nathalie Moncel: Wage and Welfare: Background and Content Merle Shore: Questions of Terminology Mark Harvey/Robert Maier: Rights over Resources Nathalie Moncel/Margarida Ruivo/Enrico Fravega: A Work-Welfare Nexus at the Heart of the Social Construction of Employment: New Perspectives on Labour Markets Changes and Social Exclusion Bernard Friot: Resource Regime Reforms and Worker Status Joan Miquel Verd Pericas/Coralie Perez: Skills and Credentials at the Core of the Relation between Resources and Employment Roland Atzmüller/Bernadette Clasquin/Luca Queirolo Palmas: Unions and the Wage-Welfare Nexus Corinne Gobin/Gaël Coron/Anne Dufresne: The European Union. Reorganising Resources: Employment, Pensions and the Wage Willibrord de Graaf/Bernadette Clasquin: Whither Social Rights and Societal Resources?