As Europe's public realms face upheaval, this is the first book to identify how social solidarity is being reinvented from below and redefined from above. Interdisciplinary transnational approaches provide new insights into the relationship between national and transnational social solidarity across Europe.Valuable to students, policy makers and scholars, it reveals social solidarity as the defining pillar of European integration, bringing a greater dimension and integrity beyond democracy across nation states.

About the Author
Marion Ellison is Director of HOPES European Research Network and lectures in Social and Public Policy at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She has provided research on governance, policy and practice for looked after children for governments in Europe.

Reviews
"This is a vital contribution to debates about the contested character of social solidarity within and across Europe. In the face of economic crisis and new dynamics of social inequality and exclusion, this important collection examines the prospects, problems and paradoxes of reconstructing solidarity." John Clarke, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University



Book Information
ISBN 9781847427274
Author Marion Ellison
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Policy Press
Publisher Policy Press