Rik van Berkel
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Active social policies in the EU
Inclusion through participation?
Edited by Rik van Berkel and Iver Hornemann Møller
This book challenges the underlying presupposition that regular employment is the royal road to inclusion. Drawing on original empirical research, it investigates the inclusionary and exclusionary potentials of different types of work, including activation programmes.
Making it personal
Individualising activation services in the EU
Edited by Rik van Berkel and Ben Valkenburg
This book addresses the development of increasingly individualised public social services in the EU. It focuses particularly on activation services that have become crucial in the 'modernisation' of welfare states, comparing their introduction in the UK, Germany, Italy, Finland and the Czech Republic.