¿El empleo contra la cohesión social?

Abstract

This article interprets how the notion of ageing as a justification for a series of social policies has wielded with the resul * Universidad Libre de Bruselas. Artículo traducido por Pablo Meseguer Gancedo. 241 Mateo Alaluf ¿El empleo contra la cohesión social? ting type of government that favours an «open method of coordination» in industrial relations. By placing the decisions taken at the last three European Councils in the framework of social policy, we will attempt to demonstrate how putting the accent on improving unemployment rates could, from that perspective, have a paradoxical effect on social cohesion. The problem of «ageing» presented at the last European Councils as an inexorable threat to the system of social protection makes employment an obligation which, below a semblance of participation, could also lead to exclusion and inequality.