ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the issues raised by respondents regarding the idea of measuring the social impacts of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Denise's assessment of the lack of evidence about the social impacts of CSR at the international EU level is supported by several national level respondents, who also point to a shortage of information nationally. In Gillian's reasoning CSR has the positive social effect, in relation to the welfare state, of increasing the overall welfare of society because CSR helps reduce the collective welfare burden of unemployment. Union respondents express concerns about the threat of CSR to employees on the ordinary labour market if companies start to seek out new recruits that come with government subsidies. Both in England and Denmark, the CSR work placement projects are clearly made sense of through the social integrationist discourse, just as the social democratic CSR discourse emerges as influential in both countries.
