Decommodification and Welfare State: the Case of Workplace Accident Victims

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Authors/contributors

Tabin, Jean-Pierre (Author)
Probst, Isabelle (Author)
Waardenburg, George (Author)
Dransart, Dolores Angela Castelli (Author)
Pasche, Geneviève (Author)
Bolzman, Claudio (Author)

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Abstract

To what extent does the social treatment of workplace injury in Switzerland enable victims to be decommodified in the sense given by Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1990) to this concept, i.e. enable them to leave the labor market in a way that allows them to uphold a socially acceptable standard of living? After a sociological discussion about the concept of decommodification, we present the results of a qualitative study conducted in Switzerland about workplace accident victims and show that the kind of index proposed by Esping-Andersen in order to compare welfare states is based on a faulty premise. (English)

Publication

Dekommodifizierung und Wohlfahrtsstaat: der Fall von Opfern von Arbeitsunfällen.

Volume

39

Issue

1

Pages

129-146

Date

March 2013

Journal Abbr

Swiss Journal of Sociology

Language

English

ISSN

03793664

Short Title

Decommodification and Welfare State

URL

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305301327_Decommodification_and_welfare_state_The_case_of_workplace_accident_victims

Library Catalog

EBSCOhost

Citation

Tabin, Jean-Pierre, Isabelle Probst, George Waardenburg, Dolores Angela Castelli Dransart, Geneviève Pasche, and Claudio Bolzman. 2013. “Decommodification and Welfare State: The Case of Workplace Accident Victims.” Dekommodifizierung und Wohlfahrtsstaat: der Fall von Opfern von Arbeitsunfällen. 39 (1): 129–46.

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