1. Europe and its population: the long view.- 1.1. The flawed goddess.- 1.2. Time and scale: the long past.- 1.2.1. Ice and fire.- 1.2.2. Greeks and Romans.- 1.2.3. Christ and the devil.- 1.2.4. Toil and turmoil.- 1.2.5. Numbers and might.- 1.2.6. Growth and conflict.- 1.2.7. Growth and expansion.- 1.3. Europe: concepts and limits.- 1.4. Time, space, and population: the long future.- 1.4.1. From first to second transition: a model.- 1.4.2. From modern to bourgeois postmodern: an explanation.- 1.4.3. From short-term to long-term: an interpretation.- 1.4.4. From expectations to projections: scenarios.- 1.4.5. Action or acceptance: the management of decline.- 1.4.6. Unity and Diversity: a new heterogeneity.- 1.5. From the pantheon.- 2. Les nouveaux modes de planification de la famille en Europe.- 2.1. Les changements les plus significatifs.- 2.1.1. Le développement de la sexualité hors mariage.- 2.1.2. Il n’est plus nécessaire d’être marié pour avoir des enfants.- 2.1.3. Il est possible de décider de ne pas avoir d’enfant.- 2.1.4. Il est possible de divorcer (a fortiori de rompre une union consensuelle), même avec des enfants.- 2.1.5. Une femme enceinte contre son gré n’est pas contrainte de garder son enfant.- 2.1.6. Les femmes n’ont plus à choisir entre activité professionelle et maternité.- 2.1.7. Malgré les obstacles, les jeunes générations souhaitent toujours avoir des enfants.- 2.1.8. Il est possible du surmonter certaines stérilités.- 2.2. Les perspectives.- 3. Who is working in Europe?.- 3.1. From work to non-work: an introduction.- 3.1.1. The values of work.- 3.1.2. Less work for the richest?.- 3.1.3. Work in a non-working status.- 3.2. General frame of reference.- 3.2.1. Too many idle people: unemployed, retired and non-active.- 3.2.2. How long do Europeans work?.- 3.3. Differentiating jobs and workers.- 3.3.1. The changing shape of the labour force.- 3.3.2. The changing shape of work.- 3.4. Individual and household features in relation to the labour market.- 3.4.1. More women in the labour market.- 3.4.2. Labour force participation during the course of people’s lives.- 3.4.3. Work, marriage and children.- 3.4.4. Households and labour.- 3.4.5. Education and human capital.- 3.4.6. Foreign labour.- 3.5. The changing pattern of the labour life cycle.- 3.6. Future trends and foreseeable problems.- 3.6.1. More elderly, more idle people?.- 3.6.2. Fewer young people, less unemployment?.- 3.6.3. Less work, more disparities?.- 3.7. A brief conclusion.- 4. Migration pressures on Europe.- 4.1. Comment on a definition which cannot be avoided.- 4.2. Objectives and contents.- 4.3. Basic trends: the global context.- 4.4. Basic trends in the old continent: can we really speak of migration pressures on Europe?.- 4.4.1. Introduction.- 4.4.2. Globalisation and European migration.- 4.4.3. Regionalisation vis-à-vis migrant flows within the European Union.- 4.4.4. ‘Fortress Europe’: are the doors shut or only half-open?.- 4.4.5. European migration after the end of history.- 4.4.6. Europe — a Mecca for exiles, displaced persons and refugees.- 4.4.7. European migration of ‘privileged’ ethnic minorities.- 4.4.8. Towards summing up: has Pandora’s box really been opened up?.- 4.5. Issues of the late 1990s: a review of challenges faced by Europe.- 4.5.1. ‘Melting pot Europe’ vis-à-vis new great migrant communities: the patterns and puzzles of integration.- 4.5.2. Transnationalism: towards a supranational/ postnational identity of migrants.- 4.5.3. Incomplete migration: a phenomenon of transnational marginalization.- 4.5.4. Migration business and its undesirable consequences.- 4.5.5. Probable effects of EU enlargement.- 4.6. Conclusions: does Europe still need migrants?.- List of authors.
