The promotion of individual and collective capabilities underpins CAPRIGHT’s research on the relations between labour markets, employment and welfare regimes. This project results in a positive dynamics between social justice and economic efficiency, the vital foundations for a knowledge economy. The important priority is to allow every person, wherever they live and work, to develop their own future with the resources that are available to them. What possibilities are open to them? What effective freedom of choice do they have? What obstacles impede their plans? What forms of public action, subject to what types of public debate, are available to overcome these restrictions? How can public policy overcome the inequalities in capabilities? What political procedures can Europe undertake to drive Member states in the direction of such change?


CAPRIGHT integrates two approaches into one process: one addresses resource regimes (http://www.univ-nancy2.fr/ILSTEF/RESORE/), the other inequalities in capabilities, developed from the work of Amartya Sen (http://www.idhe.ens-cachan.fr/Eurocap/).This involves disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, law, political science and philosophy, sociology.


CAPRIGHT inquiries into three key areas: gender equality, professional development and work restructuring. Each area is analysed from three entry points, offering empirical evidence “from the bottom up? within a Work Package: the actual trajectories of people’s working live; situated public action; social dialogue and European policy development.


CAPRIGHT intends to contribute to the creation, on several levels, of public spaces within which processes of deliberative social democracy can address these issues.
 
Other EU projects are closely linked to the CAPRIGHT fields of research:

RECWOWE "Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe"(network of excellence, FP6) : www.recwowe.eu
Recwowe is organising its Final Conference in Brussels, 15-18 June 2011. Please go to their website for further details.


WORKABLE "Making Capabilities Work" (projet collaboratif, 7ème PCRD): www.workable-eu.org
Informations disponibles sur le projet: workable_flyer.pdf