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DECENT WORK - JUDIT CSOBA KARTONIERT (TB)

Decent work as a key category of social integration has undergone significant changes with
respect to its concept and its content during the past centuries. The dual nature of work
(punishment and reward) can be traced throughout all eras of universal history  but it depends
mainly on the economic  social and ideological context whether it is one or the other of these
two aspects that becomes dominant for most members of the society. Today almost half of the
citizens who are of active working age do not have access to work in the traditional sense. The
fact that decent work has been losing ground in society is a source of many conflicts. Because
of a lack of alternative paradigms that would be acceptable for the majority of society  many
believe that we must make an attempt to restore the authority of the work paradigm as well as
its role in the organisation of society  i.e. to realise full employment. The author presents
an overview of the attempts that have been undertaken during the past decades in Europe and in
Hungary to ensure employment  which has been defined as the crucial precondition of a welfare
state. In recent years  most European countries have turned away from the welfare model  which
emphasises welfare payments and services  toward workfare models focusing on work. Workfare
programs are based on direct reciprocity and assume that citizens possess primary
responsibilities in addition to their social rights: in return for welfare benefits  they are
expected to provide compensation within a relatively short period of time. In this monograph
the author is looking for an answer to the question whether reducing the existing welfare
benefits  forcing the unemployed to work  and thereby creating full employment constitute a
real alternative under the current economic and social circumstances.

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