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Title Beyond marginality? : social movements of social security claimants in the European Union / edited by Rik van Berkel, Harry Coenen, Ruud Vlek
Published London : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Routledge revivals
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; 1 Social Security Claimants and Europe; 2 Strategies for Survival: Poor People's Movements in Britain; 3 Collective Action and Welfare Recipients in Britain; 4 The Collective Action of Welfare Recipients in Europe The Situation in France; 5 Projects for the Unemployed in Germany; 6 No Organization, no Services, no Money The Poor and the Excluded from Welfare in Italy; 7 Representing the Interests of Social Security Claimants and Welfare Recipients in the Netherlands
8 Collective Action by Clients and Claimants in Norway9 Collective Action and Everyday Resistance; 10 Epilogue; Bibliography
Summary First published in 1998, this volume describes and analyses organizations of social security claimants and their position in the field of force of the national welfare state in six European countries: representing a diversity of welfare state regimes. The authors analyse these organizations, and their strengths and weaknesses, from a variety of theoretical perspectives: such as the opportunity structures of welfare states and national political relations, the fragmentation of the social movements of social security claimants along ideological and categorical lines, the (im)possibilities of organizing socially highly marginalized groups etc. The volume also contains an introduction and an epilogue, as well as a chapter dealing with the relations between collective and individual forms of social resistance
Notes Originally published: Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998
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Subject Social security beneficiaries -- European Union countries
Welfare recipients -- European Union countries
Welfare rights movement -- European Union countries
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
Social security beneficiaries
Welfare recipients
Welfare rights movement
European Union countries
Form Electronic book
Author Berkel, Rik van, editor
Coenen, Harry, editor
Vlek, Ruud, editor
ISBN 9780429464843
0429464843