The objective of this paper is to distinguish between different types of working poverty, on the basis of the mechanisms that produce it. Whereas the poverty literature identifies a myriad of risk factors and of categories of disadvantaged workers, we focus on three immediate causes of working...

Labour market risk structures have changed quite dramatically since the early postwar years. Long-term unemployment, low wage employment and the associated problem of the working poor, and clashes between work and family life constitute today the most widespread social risks. They were not well...

Politics of new social risk -- New social risks and the politics of post-industrial social policies / Giuliano Bonoli -- Political parties and new social risks: the double backlash against social democracy and Christian democracy / Hans Keman, Kees van Kersbergen and Barbara Vis -- New social...