An up-to-date and useful book on the hot topic of social security and the changes happening worldwide and in our country.

What is the role and nature of social security and what is the historical trajectory of this institution? Is it in crisis and if so, how does this crisis manifest and what is the cause of it?

Why has the battle for social security become the "mother of all battles" and what is the insurance model being built to replace the "welfare state" that is being shattered both in Europe and in the USA? What anti-worker regulations give substance to the new insurance landscape? What is the common ground between the Sioufa law and the "Agenda 2010" of Schroeder, Sarkozy's measures and the Reppas law, the changes by Prodi and the "reforms" of the Karamanlis government? What do the various myths of insurance and the doctrines accompanying the promoted upheavals serve and mean? Are the positions of the trade union movement a real formidable opponent to the onslaught of governments and capital? What could be a modern workers' response? These and other questions are ambitiously addressed by this volume, with the needs of workers and young people as a reference point, and above all the great need for workers' emancipation.