https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Rethinking-Class https://booksandideas.net/Rethinking-Class 2020-10-05T07:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Duvoux Society labour market economic sociology employment sociology industry working class Books and ideas originals <p>The employment structure has changed since the 1970's. For Daniel Oesch, this means we need new models to describe today's labour markets and new class schemes to move beyond industrial-based categories. We also need to understand the political consequences of the collapse of the industrial working class in Europe.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Cost-and-Quality https://booksandideas.net/Cost-and-Quality 2015-04-20T05:30:00Z text/html en Florian Mayneris Economy labour market investment companies trade Institut français competitiveness <p>The French economy's lack of “competitiveness” is often attributed to high labor costs. Recent research, however, suggests that the export performance of advanced countries has less to do with labor costs than with product quality and the ways businesses invest.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Women-s-Employment-in-Europe https://booksandideas.net/Women-s-Employment-in-Europe 2014-05-26T07:30:00Z text/html en Mathilde Guergoat-Larivière Society labour market women European Union Institut du monde contemporain <p>What is the situation for women's employment in the different European countries and what are the latest developments? This study aims to identify the policies that seem most favourable to women's employment in the context of a “life cycle”, in other words taking into account the specific phase that is the potential birth and upbringing of very young children.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Active-Solidarity-Benefit-and https://booksandideas.net/The-Active-Solidarity-Benefit-and 2011-06-01T11:54:54Z text/html en Jean-Luc Outin Economy labour market poverty means-tested benefits French minimal income (<span class="caps">RSA</span>) <p>The economist Jean-Luc Outin reviews the history of welfare benefits in France, describes the issues surrounding the recent reform that combines the various benefits, and examines the potentially deregulatory effects of this reform on the labour market.</p>