Cover -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Has Happened to the Twentieth-century Welfare State? -- 3. What Has Happened in the Labour Market? -- 4. What Has Happened to Gender Equality? -- 5. Recalibrating the Mechanisms of Redistribution --...

In 2001, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions carried out a survey on working conditions in 12 candidate countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia (extended to Turkey in...

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