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This book provides a Europe-wide comparative analysis of the role of civil society organizations active in the field of unemployment and precarity. It illustrates how crucial civil society organizations are for the inclusion of the young unemployed, mainly in two ways: by delivering services and by advocating policy.

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Introduction; Simone Baglioni and Marco Giugni PART I: RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES 1. The Political Role of Civil Society in the Policy Field of Youth Unemployment and Precarious Working Conditions; Simone Baglioni, Jasmine Lorenzini, and Lorenzo Mosca 2. Addressing Unemployment in Different Welfare Regimes: Civil Society Organizations and Their Strategies; Jennifer Hobbins, Birgitta Erkisson, and Ewa Bacia 3. Between Passion and Money: Human and Financial Resources and Patterns of Professionalization of Civil Society Organisations; Luis Mota and Vitória MourÆo 4. The Impact of Political Opportunity Structures on the Politicization of Civil Society Organizations in the Field of Unemployment and Precarity; Manlio Cinalli and Marco Giugni PART II: NETWORKS 5. Networks within the Multi-Organizational Field of Unemployment: A Tale of Seven Cities in Europe; Matteo Bassoli and Manlio Cinalli 6. Local Civil Societies in the Field of Labor Market Issues: Cliques, Cleavages, and Conflicts in the Organizational Networks of Cologne and Turin; Christian Lahusen and Bettina Grimmer 7. Who Are the Powerful Actors? An Analysis of Brokerage in the Networks of Organizations Dealing with Unemployment and Precarity; Matteo Bassoli, Manlio Cinalli, and Marco Giugni 8. Inheriting Divisions? The Role of Catholic and Leftist Affiliation in Local Cooperation Network: The Case of Italy and Poland; Matteo Bassoli and Maria Theiss 9. Mind the Gap: Local Civil Society Organizations and the European Union; Christian Lahusen Conclusion; Simone Baglioni and Marco Giugni

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Ewa Bacia, University of Warsaw, Poland Matteo Bassoli, Bocconi University, Italy Manlio Cinalli, Sciences Po (CEVIPOF), France Birgitta Eriksson, Karlstad University, Sweden Bettina Grimmer, Siegen University, Germany Jennifer Hobbins, Swedish National Defense College Christian Lahusen, Siegen University, Germany Jasmine Lorenzini, University of Geneva, Switzerland Lorenzo Mosca, University of Roma Tre, Italy Luís Mota, University of Lisbon, Portugal Maria Vitória MourÆo, University of Lisbon, Portugal Maria Theiss, Warsaw University, Poland

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