The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: An Introduction

   1. The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: An Introduction

      • Marco Giugni

      Pages 1-16

3. Context and Opportunities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Welfare States, Political Opportunities, and Claim Making in the Field of Unemployment Politics

      • Manlio Cinalli, Marco Giugni

      Pages 19-42

   3. The Protest on Unemployment: Forms and Opportunities

      • Donatella della Porta

      Pages 43-69

   4. Networks and Political Contention over Unemployment: A Comparison of Britain, Germany, and Switzerland

      • Manlio Cinalli, Katharina Füglister

      Pages 70-93

4. Actors and Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. A Precarious Balance of Interests: Unions and the Unemployed in Europe

      • Annulla Linders, Marina Kalander

      Pages 97-126

   3. The Role of Civil Society Actors in the Contentious Politics of Unemployment

      • Simone Baglioni

      Pages 127-151

   4. Transcending Marginalization: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France, Germany, and Italy in a Comparative Perspective

      • Simone Baglioni, Britta Baumgarten, Didier Chabanet, Christian Lahusen

      Pages 152-168

5. Unemployment Politics and the European Union

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Globalization and the Contentious Politics of Unemployment: Towards Denationalization and Convergence?

      • Christian Lahusen, Marco Giugni, Michel Berclaz

      Pages 171-197

   3. Europeanization and the EU Supranational Multiorganizational Field of Unemployment: Elite-Dominance or New Opportunities?

      • Paul Statham, Manlio Cinalli

      Pages 198-226

   4. When the Unemployed Challenge the European Union: The European Marches as a Mode of Externalization of Protest

      • Didier Chabanet

      Pages 227-243

6. The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Some Conclusions

   1. The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Some Conclusions

      • Marco Giugni

      Pages 244-252

7. Back Matter

   Pages 253-283

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This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conceived as political opportunity structures specific to this field, public debates and collective mobilizations in unemployment politics.

• employment
• European Union (EU)
• fashion
• globalization
• Nation
• networks
• novel
• organization
• organizations
• politics
• Protest
• society
• unemployment
• unions

• University of Geneva, Switzerland

  Marco Giugni

SIMONE BAGLIONI is a research fellow at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy BRITTA BAUMGARTEN is Research fellow of the Research Group Civil Society, Citizenship and political Mobilization at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany MICHEL BERCLAZ works in the field of public policies evaluation for the state of Geneva DIDIER CHABANET is Associate Research Fellow at the University Institute of European Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain MANLIO CINALLI is Associate Research Professor at Sciences Po Paris, France DONATELLA DELLA PORTA is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Italy KATHARINA FÜGLISTER is a Ph.D candidate and teaching assistant at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland MARCO GIUGNI is a researcher at the Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées (resop) and teaches at the Department of Political Science at the Universityof Geneva, Switzerland MARINA KALANDER BLOMQVIST is a public health specialist at the division for Research and Public Health, at Landstinget in Värmland, Sweden, and a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Karlstad University, Sweden CHRISTIAN LAHUSEN is Professor for Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Siegen, Germany ANNULLA LINDERS is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati, USA PAUL STATHAM is Professor of Political Sociology and Director of EurPolCom, the Centre for European Political Communications, hosted by the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

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