Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy:
European and American Experiments

Edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and David Trubek
(Oxford University Press, 2003)

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Summary

This book examines the common challenges confronting the European Union and the United States as they reconfigure work and welfare in a new economy and struggle to develop effective and legitimate governance arrangements. Essays by leading European and American scholars demonstrate that despite institutional and political differences, the EU and the US face similar problems created by changes in productive organization, employment patterns, household structures, and social risks. They likewise face similar problems of coordinating reforms across interdependent policy domains and levels of governance, each involving a multiplicity of public and private actors. Because the issues are complex, the environment uncertain, and ready-made solutions unsatisfactory, policy makers in Europe and the US have increasingly recognized the need to accept diversity, encourage experimentation, foster collaborative problem-solving, and link multiple levels of governance. The result has been a proliferation of new forms of experimentalist governance based on various combinations of devolved decision making, information pooling and performance comparison, deliberative exploration of promising solutions or 'good practices', and redefinition of policy objectives in light of accumulated experience. Europeans are systematically studying and debating each others' policies and practices through the Open Method of Coordination, while American states and localities are likewise developing new mechanisms for information sharing and horizontal comparison. Hence there is now an opportunity to expand the process of mutual learning to the transatlantic region as a whole. Governing Work and a Welfare in a New Economy contributes to this project by tracing parallel trends in governance and showing how new policy solutions are emerging from such experimentation. The book's innovative interdisciplinary approach and up-to-date coverage of current transformations in work, welfare, and governance on both sides of the Atlantic will make it required reading for scholars, students, and policy makers alike.
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Contributors

• Joshua Cohen is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, and Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Laura Dresser is Research Director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Adalbert Evers is Professor of Comparative Health and Social Policy at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and the Institute for Social Research (ISF), Frankfurt.
• Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Pavia and Director of the POLEIS Center for Comparative Political Research at the Bocconi University in Milan.
• Janine Goetschy is a senior research fellow at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), attached to the University of Paris-Nanterre and to the Institute of European Studies at the Free University of Brussels.
• Joel Handler is Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law and Policy Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) Law School.
• Anton Hemerijck is Deputy Director of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) in the Hague and Senior Lecturer in Public Administration at the University of Leiden.
• James Mosher is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio University.
• Paul Osterman is Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
• Ida Regalia is Professor of Theory and Politics of Labor at the University of Milan and Deputy Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research (IRES) of Lombardy.
• Martin Rhodes is Professor of European Public Policy at the European University Institute, Florence.
• Joel Rogers is John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology, Law, and Political Science, and Director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Charles Sabel is Professor of Law and Social Science at Columbia University Law School.
• Robert Salais is the Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Research Group on Institutions and Historical Dynamics of the Economy (IDHE) at the École Normale Supérieure in Cachan.
• Alain Supiot is Professor of Law at the University of Nantes and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme “Ange Guépin”.
• David Trubek is Voss-Bascom Professor of Law, Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, and Co-Director of the European Union Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Louise Trubek is Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
• Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations and Co-Director of the European Union Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Table of Contents

1. Jonathan Zeitlin
   Introduction: Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments

Part I: Experimenting with the Work-Welfare Nexus: The European Union

2. David Trubek and James Mosher
   New Governance, Employment Policy, and the European Social Model
   
3. Janine Goetschy
   The European Employment Strategy, Multi-Level Governance, and Policy Coordination
   
4. Maurizio Ferrera and Anton Hemerijck
   Recalibrating Europe's Welfare Regimes
   
5. Martin Rhodes
   National Social Pacts and EU Governance of Work and Welfare
   
6. Ida Regalia
   Decentralizing Employment Protection in Europe: Territorial Pacts and Beyond
   
7. Adalbert Evers
   Local Labor Market Policies and Social Integration in Europe

Part II: Experimenting with the Work-Welfare Nexus: The United States

8. Joel Handler
   US Welfare Reform: The Big Experiment
   
9. Paul Osterman
   Organizing the US Labor Market: National Problems, Community Strategies
   
10. Laura Dresser and Joel Rogers
    Part of the Solution: Emerging Workforce Intermediaries in the US
    
11. Louise Trubek
    Health Care and Low-Wage Work in the US: Linking Local Action for Expanded Coverage

Part III: Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: Emergent Patterns and Future Possibilities

12. Robert Salais
    Work and Welfare: Towards a Capability Approach
    
13. Joshua Cohen and Charles Sabel
    Sovereignty and Solidarity: EU and US
    
14. Alain Supiot
    Governing Work and Welfare in a Global Economy