La construction sociale de l'emploie

Objective

The main purpose of this thematic network project is to support the thesis that social exclusion causes are to be analysed as a result of qualitative changes in the social construction of employment. Several hypothesis found this thesis and are presented in the proposal document.

On the basis of national synthetic reports and foreign comments, collective work inside workshops will test these hypothesis on four main issues:
- employment as a social construction;
- dimensions, forms, levels and actors;
- and employment concept: universal or societal category;
- specification of employment for each country and emphasis on proximities and cross-national convergences in a comparative perspective;
- producing of a societal typology;
- main changes in the social construction of employment and integration in an analytical framework;
- Social exclusion issues in regards with societal transformations of employment in Europe.

The thematic network involves five European research teams that have produced numerous studies and comparative analysis in the field of training, employment and social exclusion with developing socio-economic approaches of these issues. The narrow links between teams come from several meeting and common works in European research programmes that have pointing out the proximity of scientific concerns.

The thematic network aims at: producing, for each issue, national state-of-the-art reports which will be questioned by a foreign research, pointing out national specificities and convergences on evidences and theoretical framework concerning the social construction of employment, developing a theoretical framework for integrating social specificities and European dimensions in comparative analysis of employment and social exclusion, establishing a common analytical framework for developing a further common research program including national monographies.

Programme(s)

• FP4-TSER - Specific programme of targeted socio-economic research, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0302 - Causes of social exclusion, particularly unemployment

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

UNIVERSITÉ DE NANCY 2

Address

Boulevard Albert 1Er, 23
54015 Nancy
France

Participants (5)

Istituto di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali Lucia Morosini

Italy

Address

Piazza Vittorio Veneto 1
10124 Torino

N/A

UNIVERSITY OF PORTO

Portugal

Address

Rua Dr.roberto Frias
4200-464 Porto

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Spain

Address

08193 Cerdanyola Des Valles

University of Leicester

United Kingdom

Address

7-9,Salisbury Road
LE1 7QR Leicester