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The first volume--Part A--looked at experiences and inequalities of workers, identifying many problems and challenges they face across Europe. Here contributors, mostly from the US but also Britain and Switzerland, explore policies and institutions and consider possible solutions. The environment of security and protection workers once enjoyed is now gone, they find, but many of the core social policies remain intact and the labor market institutions are still stronger in Europe than anywhere else in the world. Among the topics are the political economy of active social policy in post-industrial democracies, whether European-style welfare generosity discourages single-mother employment, unionization in East European ex-communist countries 1990-2006, and European workers as meaning-making beings. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
