Resocialising Europe in a Time of Crisis

Dr Nicola Countouris is a Reader in Law in the Faculty of Laws at University College London and the co-ordinator of the UCL Labour Rights Institute. His main research interests are in the areas of labour law and European law. Professor Mark Freedland FBA is an Emeritus Research Fellow in Law at St John's College, Oxford, and an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Laws at University College London. His main research interests are in the areas of labour law and public law.

• Introduction; The myths and realities for 'social Europe' Nicola Countouris and Mark Freedland; Part I. Social Europe and the Crisis of Idea(l)s: 1. Towards a European policy on work Alain Supiot; 2. Entrenching neo-liberalism: the current agenda of European social policy Colin Crouch; 3. Completing economic and social integration: towards labour law for the United States of Europe Frank Hendrickx; 4. International labour standards and EU labour law Giuseppe Casal; 5. The European Social Charter: could it contribute to a more social Europe? Monika Schlachter; 6. Completing the picture: the complex relationship between EU anti-discrimination law and 'social Europe' Colm O'Cinneide; 7. Breaking the mould: equality as a proactive duty Sandra Fredman; 8. The sovereign debt crisis and the evolution of labour law in Europe Simon Deakin and Aristea Koukiadaki; Part II. Addressing Precariousness in Work: 9. Disturbing equilibrium and transferring risk - confronting precarious work Sonia McKay; 10. Resocialising temporary agency work through a theory of 'reinforced' employers' liability Consuelo Chacartegui; 11. Regulating atypical work: beyond equality Anne Davies; 12. The charter in time of crisis: a case study of dismissal Catherine Barnard; 13. Job security: a challenge for EU social policy Manfred Weiss; 14. Flexibility and enterprise risk: employees as stakeholders in corporate governance Wanjiru Njoya; 15. The changing face of 'flexicurity' in times of austerity? Astrid Sanders; 16. Equality, fair-mutualisation and the socialisation of risk and reward in European pensions Kendra Strauss; Part III. Reinventing the Collective Dimensions of Social Europe: 17. Solidarity and the re-socialization of risk: analysing ETUC strategies to face the crisis Julia Lopez; 18. For better or for worse? Transnational solidarity in the light of social Europe Catherine Jacqueson; 19. Resocialising Europe through a European right to strike modelled on the Social Charter? Andrzej Marian Świątkowsk; 20. Re-socialising collective deliberations Silvana Sciarra; 21. The emergence of socially sustainable sourcing: a mechanism for protecting labour standards in the context of collective bargaining decline Chris Wright and William Brown; 22. Migrant workers and collective bargaining: institutional isomorphism and legitimacy in a resocialised Europe Lydia Hayes, Tonia Novitz and Petra Herzfeld Olsson; 23. The European social dialogues - from autonomy to here Alan Bogg and Ruth Dukes; Epilogue Nicola Countouris and Mark Freedland.

'Resocialising Europe in a Time of Crisis is a truly excellent collection of essays with an impressive depth and range. Its distinctive strength lies in the variety of response its contributors make to the challenge laid down by its editors: to identify ways in which the European Union could reverse rather than reinforce rising inequality and increasingly asymmetric risk distribution for those reliant on work for their livelihood. Read it to think better about how Social Europe has been marginalised and how that trend could be reversed.' Claire Kilpatrick, Professor of International and European Labour and Social Law, European University Institute, Florence