Books and issues

We are pleased to announce the creation of our new

"Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe" series

in Palgrave Macmillan Publishing , which will be an important forum for publications in the field of the analysis of tensions in the relationships between work and welfare.

Series editors:

• Denis Bouget, University of Nantes and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange Guépin, Nantes, France
• Jochen Clasen, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Ana M Guillén Rodriguez, University of Oviedo, Spain
• Jane Lewis, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
• Bruno Palier, Sciences-Po Paris

Please, find below the books published by RECWOWE members relative to their work within the network.

You can also visit the RECWOWE Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare series website

	A long good-bye to Biscmarck? The politics of Welfare Reforms in Continental Europe Book coordinated by Bruno Palier (ed, Amsterdam University Press, Changing Welfare State Series, 2010, 464 pp) This book provides an extensive and comparative account of all welfare reforms that occurred during the last three decades in Continental European countries, covering Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Ialy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. It reveals unexpected important structural reforms, to be understood as the culmination of a long reform trajectory, analysed in detail with the tools of Comparative historical institutionalism. With these reforms, Bismarckian welfare systems have lost their encompassing capacities, partly turned to employment-friendliness, and weakened the strongest elements of their male breadwinner bias. They have been transformed into dual welfare systems that differentiate between the protection of the core workers and the assistance and activation of the atypical ones. read more
	After the euro and enlargement: social pacts in the EU This book aims to shed light on the most recent wave of social pacts in the last decade in western and eastern EU countries. In the context of recent socio-economic and political challenges (globalisation, changing economic context, labour market transformation, and the full implementation of EMU), 11 country chapters summarise the recent evolution of social pacts across the Eurozone and in New EU member states. read more (March 2010)
	After the crisis: towards a sustainable growth model The ETUI has brought together critical and progressive academics and researchers from Europe and the United States to help launch a debate on setting an agenda for a reformed capitalism ‘after the crisis’. A total of 39 contributors provide concise, policy-oriented proposals, each one focusing on a specific area of relevance to a post-crisis world. read more (March 2010)
	"Quality of Work in the European Union: Concepts, Data and Debates from a Transnational Perspective" Book coordinated by by Ana Marta Guillén Rodríguez and Svenn- Åge Dahl [(eds.), Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2009, 250 pp] This book is directly born of the collective work performed in the frame of WP03 within the RECWOWE Network of Excellence. here, find a abstract
	"The Internal Dynamics of the Enlarged  Single European Market" Special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Research Articles are free of charge, and available here
	Le destin des enfants d'immigrés , Un désenchaînement des générations Book written by Claudine Attias-Donfut, researcher at the Centre Edgar Morin, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and François-Charles Wolff, professor at the University of Nantes, Stock, 2009.
	“Calidad del Trabajo en la Union Europea.  Concepto, Tensiones, Dimensiones” book written by Ana Marta Guillén Rodríguez, Rodolfo Gutiérrez Palacios, Sergio González Begega [(eds.), Madrid, Thomson Civitas, 2009, 294 pp].  here, find an abstract in spanish
	"Work Family Balance, Gender and Policy" book written by Jane Lewis, Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK [(eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009, 256 pp].  here, find an abstract

You can also visit the RECWOWE Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare series website