South European countries have been hit hardest and longest by the post-2008 economic
crisis. This has brought their welfare states under acute strain. Unmet need has sharply …

Three experienced Italian sociologists explore the structural and cultural dimensions of
poverty in their country. Comparing Italy's regime with other European countries, they …

Challenging the new political-economic “mainstream” that considers trade unions to be
“complicit” in labor market dualization, this article's analysis of union strategies in Italy and …

Dynamics of labour market dualization have affected most Western European countries over
the last two decades, and trade unions have often been seen as conservative actors …

The duration and depth of the crisis in Italy, as well as its impact both in general and
specifically on child poverty, were largely a consequence of longterm structural features of …

The European Union (hereafter the EU) has made combating poverty into one of its main
priorities. Constituting one of the five headline targets in the EU 2020 strategy, heads of …

This chapter describes the supranational and national contexts for recent local-level
initiatives to combat poverty and social exclusion in Europe. It first discusses the emergence …

This chapter introduces the volume by outlining the two theoretical and empirical puzzles
that lie at its very core, understanding path departure and policy reversal in minimum income …

This chapter describes the evolution of the minimum income protection system in Italy and
Spain from their origins until the present days, carefully retracing the main policy …

Caitlin Reilly graduated from Birmingham University in June 2010 with a BSc in geology.
Unable to find paid employment within her field of study, she claimed UK Jobseekers' …