Shifting Solidarities: Trends and Developments in European Societies

ISBN 10: 3030440613 / ISBN 13: 9783030440619

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shifting Solidarities: Trends and Developments in European Societies
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030440613
• ISBN 13: 9783030440619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Shifting Solidarities offers a comprehensive analysis of solidarity at a time when major social transformations have penetrated the heart of European societies, disrupting markets and labour relations, transforming social practices, and affecting the moral infrastructure of European welfare states. Factors such as the economic crisis, migration, digitalisation, and climate change all contribute to a sense of emergency. This volume considers how, in times of crisis, there are calls for solidarity by various new social and political actors and movements. 

The contributions present a broad array of empirical work and critical scholarship, zooming in on shifting solidarities in various domains of social life, including work, social policy, health care, religion, family, gender and migration. This compelling volume provides a unique resource for understanding solidarity in contemporary Europe, and will be a vital text for students and scholars across sociology, social policy, cultural studies, employment/labour markets and organisation studies, migration studies and European studies.

About the Author

Ine Van Hoyweghen is Professor at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) at KU Leuven, Belgium. 

Valeria Pulignano is Full Professor in Sociology at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) at KU Leuven, Belgium. 

Gert Meyers is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) at KU Leuven, Belgium.