Self-Employment as Precarious Work

A European Perspective

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed - and even reversed in some countries - and the prospect of 'being your own boss' is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia. Traditionally, self-employment has been associated with independent entrepreneurship, but increasingly it is linked to being a form of precarious work. This book utilises evidence-based information to address both the current and future challenges of this trend as the nature of self-employment changes, as well as to demonstrate where, when and why self-employment has emerged as precarious work in Europe. Bringing together leading international experts in the field, this book provides insight into key issues surrounding self-employment from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Covering existing theory and context, providing empirical results of studies into self-employment and precarious work from across Europe, and discussion of the implications of this research, it offers key insights into future avenues for research.Students of European studies and social policy, as well as policy makers and researchers with a particular interest in employment, self-employment and precarious work across Europe, will find the data and policy ideas presented in this book an invaluable read.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-07-26
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781788115025

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Contents:Preface1. Self-Employment: Between Freedom and InsecurityWieteke Conen and Joop SchippersPART I Do we have to worry about the ‘new self-employed’? Theory and Context2. Labour Market Flexibility, Self-Employment and PrecariousnessJoop Schippers3. Social Protection for the Self-Employed: an EU Legal PerspectiveHanneke Bennaars4. Self-Employment, Pensions and the Risk of Poverty in Old AgeUwe FachingerPART II Self-Employment and Precarious Work in Europe: Empirical Results5. Self-Employment: Independent ‘Enterprise’, or Precarious Low-skilled Work? The case of the UKNigel Meager6. Micro-Entrepreneurship and Changing Contours of Work: Towards Precarious Work Relations? Empirical Findings from AustriaDieter Bögenhold, Andrea Klinglmair, Zulaicha Parastuty and Florian Kandutsch7. Precariousness and Social Risks among Solo Self-Employed in Germany and The NetherlandsWieteke Conen and Maarten Debets8. Between Precariousness and Freedom: the Ambivalent Condition of Independent Professionals in ItalyPaolo Borghi and Annalisa Murgia9. Bogus Self-Employment in SwedenDominique Anxo and Thomas Ericson 10. Precariousness among Older Self-Employed Workers in EuropeWieteke Conen11. Migrant Self-Employment in Germany: On the Risks, Characteristics and Determinants of Precarious WorkStefan Berwing, Andrew Isaak and René LeichtPART III Implications and Future Research Agenda12. The Matter of Representation: Precarious Self-Employment and Interest OrganisationsGiedo Jansen and Roderick Sluiter13. The ‘New’ Self-Employed and Hybrid Forms of Employment: Challenges for Social Policies in EuropeKarin Schulze Buschoff14. Between Freedom and Insecurity: Future ChallengesJoop Schippers and Wieteke ConenIndex