The institutionalization of the individualization of work: the concept of flexicurity
Abstract
The concept of flexicurity is becoming a central element in European employment policies. In this work the origins of the concept are traced through a discourse analysis of the monographic document elaborated by the European Commision on the subject in dialog with the literature on the subject. The unbalanced use of flexicurity as used by the Commision is shown. In the same vein, it will be analysed how this concept is a good example of the generalized tendency to the individualisation of European employment policies, in line with recent managerial discourses, which place on the subject the whole responsibility for their laboral present and future.
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