TY - GEN AU - Lehweß-Litzmann,René TI - Capability as a Yardstick for Flexicurity : Using the Senian Paradigm to Evaluate a European Policy Agenda SN - gup2014-771 PY - 2014/// PB - Universitätsverlag Göttingen KW - Society & social sciences KW - bicssc KW - Sociology: work & labour KW - Labour-market KW - Social policy KW - Europe KW - Employment N1 - Open Access N2 - Flexicurity is a European policy agenda seeking to increase both flexibility and security in the labour-market. This book argues that it needs a revision: Although flexicurity is set out to change the way Europeans work and live, and even though it is being justified by workers’ needs, flexicurity lacks of a clear and democratically justified vision of society. Flexicurity is confronted here with Amartya Sen’s capability-approach, a paradigm of well-being evaluation. How is flexicurity related to a concept of employment as part of a way of life which people have reason to value? How capability-friendly are established flexicurity-indicators? It is thus shown how the capability-approach can be used in the field of labour-market and social policy UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37086/1/Lehwess_Litzmann_978-3-86395-163-4.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37086/1/Lehwess_Litzmann_978-3-86395-163-4.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/25972 ER -