Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: the cultures of welfare and exclusion, Heinz Steinert. The Project Framework: Limits of market society: European perspectives, Ian Taylor; Inclusion, exclusion: towards a dynamic approach, Georg Vobruba; Social exclusion: strategies for coping with and avoiding it, Heinz Steinert. Conceptual and Theoretical Matters: Participation and social exclusion: a conceptual framework, Heinz Steinert; Towards understanding situations of social exclusion, Bridgette Wessels and Siep Miedema. The Presentation of Social Exclusion: Forms and Norms: Coping with social exclusion: from acceptance to indignation, Tomke Böhnisch and Helga Cremer-Schäfer; Normalization, symptoms and reductions of complexity: unsatisfactory accounts of unsatisfactory living, Gerhard Hanak. Coping and its Resources: The Welfare-Work-Family Mix: Welfare or what? conditions for coping within different socio-political structures: the examples of Sweden and Spain, Anita Rönneling and Àngela Gabás i Gasa; Resources, coping and subjective experiences, Monia Giovannetti and Fabio Quassoli; The meaning of work and experiences of disqualification, Helga Cremer-Schäfer; Subsistence, Henrik Tham; (Ab)using the family, Tomke Böhnisch, Àngela Gabás i Gasa, Monia Giovannetti and Fabio Quassoli. Coping and its Resources: The Usefulness and Widespread Absence of Community: Community, subculture, secondary association as a resource: patterns of association to counter exclusion and configured networks to manage exclusion, Bridgette Wessels; Innovative coping strategies and social resource structures, Siep Miedema and Janine Janssen; 'On the spot' experiences and perceptions of social exclusion: comparing local communities and urban settings, Gerhard Hanak. The Market and the Law: Limits of Coping: Infrastructure gaps: housing problems in Bologna and Frankfurt, Fabio Quassoli and Tomke Böhnisch; Legal exclusion and social exclusion: 'legal' and 'illegal' migrants, Inge Karazman-Morawetz and Anita Rönneling; Double difficulty: female and foreigner, Bridgette Wessels, Janine Janssen and Siep Miedema. Conclusions and Policy Implications: Welfare policies as resource management, Christa Pelikan, Arno Pilgram, Heinz Steinert and Georg Vobruba; Bibliography; Technical annex; Index.