Work, Family Policies and Transitions to Adulthood in Europe (Work and Welfare in Europe) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230300251 ISBN 13: 9780230300255

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or without children, exploring questions such as what does it mean to be a young adult in Europe today and what social policies help them to combine work and family life?

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About the Author:

SONJA DROBNIC Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Hamburg, Germany COLETTE FAGAN Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK ANA M. GUILLEN Full professor of Sociology at the University of Oviedo, Spain ALEKSANDRA KANJUO MRCELA Associate Professor of Sociology of Work and Economic Sociology and a Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia IRENA E. KOTOWSKA Professor of Demography and Head of the Demography Unit at the Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland HELEN NORMAN Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK EMMANUELE PAVOLINI Associate Professor of Economic Sociology and Social Policy at Macerata University, Italy JANNEKE PLANTENGA Professor of Economics at the Utrecht University School of Economics, The Netherlands CHANTAL REMERY Assistant Professor at Utrecht University School of Economics, The Netherlands MARK SMITH Associate Professor of Human Resource Management at Grenoble Ecole de Management, France JUDIT TAKACS works as the Scientific Deputy Director at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0230300251
• ISBN 13: 9780230300255
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Knijn T.