Activation Policies for the Unemployed: Redefining a Human Rights Response
(2014) Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work ( — ISBN: [9782875742322], p. 255-277, published
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- Conclusion : The activation of employment policies that has developed in a wide range of OECD countries since the mid-nineties consists in coupling unemployment benefits and social assistance with certain services or requirements to improve one’s “employability” by going through training, requalification, or work experience. Elise Dermine and Daniel Dumont, the editors of this volume, chose to frame the debate on the thus understood spread of activation by putting forward three theses. First, they note, activation per se is not necessarily to be denounced as a “recommodification” of work or social protection. In modern societies, work is not simply a constraint imposed upon individuals to achieve a decent standard of living; as Fernand Tanghe reminds us in his contribution, it is also, and simultaneously, a means of social integration and of personal fulfilment. Therefore, insofar as activation policies seek to strengthen individuals’ abilities to join the employment market and access decent work, they may be seen potentially as progress towards the full realisation of the right to work
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De Schutter, O. (2014). Activation Policies for the Unemployed: Redefining a Human Rights Response. In Elise Dermine & Daniel Dumont (Eds) (ed.), Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work ( (P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2014, p. p. 255-277). Peter Lang.